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 heavenly wing, And ever o'er its Babel sounds The blessed angels sing. Hymns of the Ages: third series - Seite 291865 - 331 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| American Unitarian Association - 1870 - 374 Seiten
...Before whose brightness sin and death And grief shall flee away. 355. The Angel's Song. EH BEARS. 1 IT came upon the midnight clear, That glorious song...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... | |
| Roundell Palmer Earl of Selborne - 1870 - 942 Seiten
...Ev'n in thy sombrest wintry vest Of blessed days thou art most blest Samuel Richards. 1825 XXXVIII IT came upon the midnight clear, That glorious song...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... | |
| Edward Henry Bickersteth - 1870 - 464 Seiten
...heaven : and behold the LC.M. angels of God ascending and descending on it. — GEN. xxviii. 12. 1 IT came upon the midnight clear, That glorious song...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... | |
| Episcopal Church. Diocese of Ohio. Sunday School Committee - 1870 - 196 Seiten
...the dawn of redeeming grace, Jesus, Lord, at thy birth ! (2 CM Double. Music in Saiibath Songs, p. M. IT came upon the midnight clear, That glorious song...near the earth To touch their harps of gold. " Peace on earth, good will to men, From heav'n's all-gracious King ; " The world in solemn stillness lay To... | |
| 1907 - 1184 Seiten
...carols. The voices of the singers ring out on the winter air: "It came upon the midnight clear, 1 hat 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... | |
| 1870 - 476 Seiten
...tributes bringing : Come thou Bride, forever singing, Hallelujah! Hallelujah! 1177. Lnk.2:13. C. ED. 1 IT came upon the midnight clear, That glorious song of old, From angels beuding near the earth To touch their harps of gold ; "Peace to the earth, good-will to man, From heaven's... | |
| Church hymns - 1871 - 564 Seiten
...choir Their own immortal strains ? Amen. 82 CM " I heard the voice of many Angels." — RHV. V. n. I IT came upon the midnight clear — That glorious...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... | |
| Samuel Gosnell Green - 1871 - 324 Seiten
...also? Yes ; it will come : it is coining, for — i See Acts x. 38. a Heb. ii. 16. ' " It came npon the midnight clear, That glorious song of old, From...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... | |
| American Unitarian Association - 1871 - 380 Seiten
...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. 2 Still through the cloven skies they come, With peaceful wings... | |
| Richard Fuller - 1872 - 468 Seiten
...His rising beams adorn ; Let heaven and earth in concert sing, "The promised child is born!" 287 CMD IT came upon the midnight clear, That glorious song...harps of gold : " Peace to the earth, good-will to man, From heaven's all-gracious King :" The earth in solemn stillness lay, To hear the angels sing.... | |
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