CarolsCandles Xmas Eve 2021 Lyrics
CarolsCandles Xmas Eve 2021 Lyrics
CarolsCandles Xmas Eve 2021 Lyrics
Rejoice! Rejoice!
Emmanuel shall come within as Love to dwell.
#244 It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
1. 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, to all good will, from heaven the
news we bring."
The world in solemn stillness lay to hear the angels sing.
2. 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.
3. But with the woes of war and strife the world has
suffered long;
beneath the angel-strain have rolled two thousand years
of wrong;
and we who fight the wars hear not the love song which
they bring.
O hush the noise of battle strife, and hear the angels sing.
4. 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 splendors
fling,
and the whole world give back the song which now the
angels sing.
#237 The First Nowell