It Came Upon the Midnight Clear

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“It Came Upon a Midnight Clear” is a Christmas carol that was written by American pastor and poet Edmund Hamilton Sears in 1849. The carol is set to music composed by Richard Storrs Willis, and it was first published in the “Christian Register” in Boston in December 1850. The lyrics of the carol reflect themes of peace and the message of the angels proclaiming the birth of Jesus Christ.

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