1
\nIt came upon the midnight clear,
\nThat glorious song of old,
\nFrom angels bending near the earth,
\nTo touch their harps of gold:
\n“Peace on the earth, goodwill to men
\nFrom heavens all gracious King!”
\nThe world in solemn stillness lay
\nTo hear the angels sing.<\/p>\n
2
\nStill through the cloven skies they come,
\nWith peaceful wings unfurled;
\nAnd still their heavenly music floats
\nO’er all the weary world:
\nAbove its sad and lowly plains
\nThey bend on hovering wing,
\nAnd ever o’er its Babel sounds
\nThe blessed angels sing.<\/p>\n
3
\nO ye beneath life’s crushing load,
\nWhose forms are bending low,
\nWho toil along the climbing way
\nWith painful steps and slow;
\nLook now, for glad and golden hours
\nCome swiftly on the wing;
\nOh rest beside the weary road
\nAnd hear the angels sing.<\/p>\n
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1 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, goodwill to men From heavens all gracious King!” The world in solemn stillness lay To hear the angels sing. 2 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. 3 O ye beneath life’s crushing load, Whose forms <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,116,66,69,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-101-200","category-birth","category-i","category-jesus-christ","category-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6422,"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004\/revisions\/6422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdahymnals.com\/Hymnal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}