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Came Upon Click HERE is you can't hear the midi The Reverend Edmund H. Sears
wrote this carol in 1849 when he was pastor of a Unitarian Church in
Massachusetts. It was published in 1850 in the "Christian Register." The
music was adapted from a hymn by composer Richard Willis who studied
music in Europe under Felix Mendelssohn. |
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| 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 Yet with the woes of sin and strife O ye, beneath life's crushing load, For lo! the days are hastening on,
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