It Came Upon A Midnight Clear
The Reverend Edmund Sears (1810-76), a Unitarian Minister in Massachusetts, wrote this carol, which is based on a traditional melody that probably originated in Herefordshire, England. |
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1. It came upon the midnight clear, |
2. 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 o'er its Babel sounds, The blessed angels sing. |
3. For lo! the days are hastening on, |
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