It Came Upon a Midnight Clear

from It Came Upon a Midnight Clear / The Fields Were Rotting by Diatheke

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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 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 it's sad and lowly plains, they bend on hovering wing,
and ever o'er its Babel sounds, the blessed angels sing.  

Peace on earth, good will to men, from heaven's all gracious King
The world in solemn stillness lay to hear the angels sing   

And ye, beneath life's crushing load, and 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 seen of old, With circling years shall come the time foretold when peace shall over all the earth, its ancient splendors fling, and the whole world send back the song which now the angels sing.  

For lo!
 For lo the days are hastening on! 

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from It Came Upon a Midnight Clear / The Fields Were Rotting, released December 20, 2023
Music by John Wesley, Dallas McNeely, Michael Osborn, Peter Watson.
Lyrics and Composition originally written by Richard S. Willis, Edmund H. Sears, public domain 1870 to 1885 collection.
Arranged and Performed by Diatheke
Additional Guitars, Piano and Vocals by John Wesley

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