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It Came upon the Midnight Clear
Composer Arr. David Ashley White
Text Edmund Hamilton Sears
Voicing SATB, keyboard, opt. cong.
Church Season Christmas
Length 3' 00" Price $1.95 (U.S.) Released 6/97
Catalog no. 405-268 Difficulty Moderately easy
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Description A tender setting of the familiar carol, with optional part for congregation on last stanza. Sure to become a favorite of your congregation and choir!
Text
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 all,
from heav'n'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 heav'nly music floats
o'er all the weary world;
above its sad and lowly plains
they bend on hov'ring wing,
and ever o'er its Babel-sounds
the blessed angels sing.
For lo! the days are hast'ning on,
by prophets seen of old,
when with the evercircling years
shall come the time foretold,
when peace shall over all the earth
its ancient splendors fling,
and all the world give back
the songs which now the angels sing.
Text: Edmund Hamilton Sears, 1846, alt.
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