It Came Upon A Midnight Clear

It came upon the midnight clear

That glorious song of old

From angels bending near the earth

To touch their harps of gold

Peace on the earth, good will to men

From Heaven's all gracious King

The world in solemn stillness lay

To hear the angels sing

Still through the cloven skies they come

With peaceful wings unfurled

And still their heavenly music floats

Over this weary world

Above it's sad and lowly plains

They bend on hovering wing

And ever over it's Babel sounds

The blessed angels sing.

Yet with the woes of sin and strife

The world has suffered long

Beneath the angel strain have rolled

Two thousand years of wrong

And man at war with man can't hear

The love-song which they bring

O hush the noise, ye men of strife

And hear the angels sing