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The Army and Navy Hymnal (1920)
edited by Henry Augustine Smith
It Came Upon the Midnight Clear by Edmund Hamilton Sears
(Carol by Richard Storrs Willis)
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1737732The Army and Navy Hymnal — It Came Upon the Midnight ClearEdmund Hamilton Sears
(Carol by Richard Storrs Willis)
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  1. It came up -on the mid-night clear,
    That glo-rious song of old,
    From an - gels bend - ing near the earth,
    To touch their harps of gold:
    Peace on the earth,good-will to men,
    From heaven's all-gra-cious King ;
    The world in sol-emn still-ness lay
    To hear the an-gels sing.
  2. Still through the clo-ven skies they come,
    With peace-ful wings un-furled;
    And still their heaven-ly mu-sic floats
    O'er all the wea-ry world :
    A-bove its sad and low-ly plains
    They bend on heaven-ly wing,
    And ev-er o'er its Ba-bel sounds
    The bless-ed an-gels sing.
  3. And ye, be-neath life's crush-ing load,
    Whose forms are bend-ing low,
    Who toil a-long the climb-ing way,
    With pain-ful steps and slow,
    Look now, for glad and gold-en nours
    Come swift-ly on the wing ;
    O rest be-side the wea-ry road,
    And hear the an-gels sing !
  4. For lo! the days are has-tening on,
    By proph-et-bards fore-told,
    When with the ev-er-cir-cling years
    Comes round the age of gold ;
    When peace shall over all the earth
    Its an-cient splen-dors fling,
    And the whole world give back the song
    Which now the an-gels sing.
    A-men
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