PEACE ON EARTH by Edmund Hamilton Sears

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Apr 24, 1879

"PEACE ON EARTH."

By Edmund Hamilton Sears

IT came upon the midnight clear, That glorious song of old, From angels bending near the earth To touch their harps of gold— "Peace to 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 heavenly wing, And ever o'er its Babel sounds The blessed 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 men, at war with men, hear 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!

—Rev. E. H. Sears.