It Came Upon A Midnight Clear

ORDER: I V1 V2 V3 V4 E

INTRO: C

VERSE 1: VERSE 3:
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It came upon a midnight clear O ye, beneath life's crushing load
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That glorious song of old Whose forms are bending low,
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From angels bending near the earth Who toil along the climbing way
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To touch their harps of gold With painful steps and slow
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"Peace on the earth, good will to men Look now! for glad and golden hours
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From heaven's all gracious King;" Come swiftly on the wing;
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The world in solemn stillness lay, O rest beside the weary road
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To hear the angels sing And hear the angels sing

VERSE 2: VERSE 4:
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Still through the cloven skies they come For lo, the days are hastening on,
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With peaceful wings unfurled, By prophet seen of old,
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And still their heavenly music floats When, with the ever-circling years,
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O'er all the weary world Shall come the time foretold,
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Above its sad and lowly plains When the new heaven and earth shall own
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They bend on hovering wing; The Prince of Peace their King,
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And ever o'er its Babel sounds and the whole world send back the song
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The blessed angels sing. Which now the angels sing.

ENDING: C

Words by Edmund Sears, 1849.

Music by Richard s. Willis, 1850.
Public domain.