It Came Upon A Midnight Clear-The Choir Of St. Paul's Cathedral

[ti:It Came Upon a Midnight Clear] [ar:St. Paul's Cathedral Choir] [al:Hark! The Herald Angels Sing] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]It Came Upon A Midnight Clear - The Choir Of St. Paul's Cathedral [00:01.17]It came upon the midnight clear [00:05.60] [00:06.18]That glorious song of old [00:09.47] [00:11.18]From angels bending near the earth [00:15.63] [00:16.21]To touch their harps of gold [00:19.47] [00:21.47]Peace on the earth goodwill to men [00:25.96] [00:26.48]From heaven's all gracious king [00:29.81] [00:31.85]The world in solemn stillness lay [00:36.89]To hear the angels sing [00:40.61] [00:44.31]Still through the cloven skies they come [00:49.47]With peaceful wings unfurl [00:52.32] [00:54.54]And still their heavenly music floats [00:59.04] [00:59.61]Over all the weary world [01:03.17] [01:05.55]Above it's sad and lowly plains [01:09.87] [01:10.49]They bend on hovering wing [01:13.99] [01:16.09]And ever over it's babel sounds [01:20.71] [01:21.50]The blessed angels sing [01:25.48] [01:29.72]Yet with the woes of sin and strife [01:34.01] [01:34.79]The world has suffered long [01:38.19] [01:40.22]Beneath the angels strain have rolled [01:44.81] [01:45.41]Two thousand years of wrong [01:48.80] [01:50.96]And man at war with man hears not [01:55.95]The love song which they bring [01:59.34] [02:01.50]O hush the noise ye men of strife [02:06.16] [02:06.86]And hear the angels sing [02:10.55] [02:15.14]Angel beneath life's crushing load [02:19.96]Whose forms are bending low [02:23.39] [02:25.21]Who toil along the climbing way [02:29.69] [02:30.26]With painful steps and slow [02:33.73] [02:35.73]Look now for glad and golden hours [02:40.80]Come swiftly on the wing [02:44.22] [02:46.33]O rest beside the weary road [02:50.94] [02:51.53]And hear the angels sing [02:55.54] [02:59.10]For lo the days are hastening on [03:03.68] [03:04.28]By prophets once foretold [03:07.16] [03:09.60]When with the ever circling years [03:13.92] [03:14.54]Comes from the age of God [03:18.13] [03:19.91]When peace shall over all the earth [03:24.42] [03:24.97]It's ancient splendors fling [03:28.07] [03:30.05]And the whole world give back the song [03:34.38] [03:34.92]Which now the angels sing