It Came Upon A Midnight Clear (Instrumental)

It came upon a midnight clear

That glorious song of old

From angels bending near the earth

To touch their harps of gold

‘Peace on the earth, goodwill 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 blessèd angels sing

Yet with woes of sin and strife

The world has suffered long

Beneath the angel-strain have rolled

Two thousand years of wrong

And man, at war with man hears not

The love-song which they bring

O hush the noise ye men of strife

And hear the angels sing

For lo! the days are hastening on

By prophet bards foretold

When with the ever-circling years

Comes round the age of gold

When peace shall over all the earth

Its ancient splendours fling

And all the world send back the song

Which now the angels sing