Worship Lyrics

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
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

And ye, beneath life's crushing load
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
when with the ever-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

Writers	Edmund Hamilton Sears / Richard Storrs Willis
Year	1849