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"It came upon a midnight clear" is a well known [[Christmas carol]].

===Facts===

    * Tune: Noel
    * Meter: DCM
    * Style: Victorian Carol Style: Carol
    * Composer: Arthur Seymour Sullivan (1842 - 1900)
    * Lyricist: Edmund Hamilton Sears (1810 - 1876) 

===Lyrics===

: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
:O’er all the weary world;
:Above its sad and lowly plains,
:They bend on hovering wing,
:And ever over its Babel sounds
:The blessèd 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, hears not
:The love-song which they bring;
:O hush the noise, ye men of strife
:And hear the angels sing.

:And ye, beneath life’s crushing load,
:Whose forms are bending low,
:Who toil along the climbing way
:With painful steps and slow,
:Look now! for glad and golden hours
:Come swiftly on the wing.
:O rest beside the weary road,
:And hear the angels sing!

:For lo! the days are hastening on,
:By prophet-bards foretold,
:When with the ever circling years
:Comes round the age of gold;
:When peace shall over all the earth
:Its ancient splendours fling,
:And the whole world send back the song
:Which now the angels sing. 

==Quotes==

==Links==
*[http://www.hymnswithoutwords.com/hymns/It_came_upon_a_midnight_clear Hymns Without Words - free MP3 download suitable for use in services]

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[[Category:Carols]]