Sunday, December 24, 2023

It Came Upon A Midnight Clear



For to us a Child s born, to us a Son is given; and the government shall be
 upon His shoulder, and His name shall be called, Wonderful Counselor,
Mighty God, Everlasting Father of Eternity, Prince of Peace.
(Isaiah 9:6)


Image courtesy/Patrick Oben Ministries


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 o'er its Babel sounds

The blessed 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 hast'ning on

By prophets seen of old

When with the ever-circling years

Shall come the time foretold.

When the new heav'n and earth shall own

The Prince of Peace, their King

And the whole world send back the song

Which now the angels sing.


"It Came Upon A Midnight Clear"
(1849)
Edmund Hamilton Sears
(1810-1876)
American minister and hymnwriter


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