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Meter. 8.6.8.6 ( CMD) Melody. "Carol", by Richard Storrs Willis, or "Noel", adapted by Arthur Sullivan. " It Came Upon the Midnight Clear ", sometimes rendered as " It Came Upon a Midnight Clear ", is an 1849 poem and Christmas carol written by Edmund Sears, pastor of the Unitarian Church in Wayland, Massachusetts.
"It Came Upon the Midnight Clear" is a poem and Christmas carol written by Edmund Sears, pastor of the Unitarian Church in Lancaster, Massachusetts. Sears' l...
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- Edmund H. Sears (1849)
- 8.6.8.6 D
- It came upon the midnight clear
- It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
What are the lyrics to 'It Came Upon a Midnight Clear'? - Classical Music.
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.
Dec 23, 2015 · It came upon the midnight clear: The story behind the hymn. Mark Woods 23 December 2015 | 4:06 PM. Reuters. This hymn is a Christmas favourite among many orthodox Christians. The "angels bending near the earth / To touch their harps of gold", coming through the cloven skies "with peaceful wings unfurled", bending on hovering wing to sing of the ...
At its core, the hymn is not a narrative expression of the story of the angels and shepherds in Luke 2, it is a hymn of application, admonishing humankind to heed the message of peace declared by the angels, and it offers a word of hope in the coming of an eschatological era of peace.
