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 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 Still thro' the cloven skies they come With peaceful wings unfurl'd And still their heav'nly music floats O'er all the weary world Above it's sad and lowly plains They bend on hov'ring wing And ever o'er its Babel sounds The blessed angels sing