# “O hush the noise, ye men of strife and hear the angels sing” by Edmund H. Sears

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- Published: 2007-12-25T22:37:19-06:00
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“It Came Upon the Midnight Clear”
 By Edmund H. Sears, 1849

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 over its Babel sounds The blessèd angels sing.

Yet with the 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.

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-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 send back the song Which now the
angels sing.

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