It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
LITERARY WORK; POEM BY EDMUND SEARS, CHRISTMAS CAROL
It Came upon the Midnight Clear; It Came Upon A Midnight Clear; It Came Upon a Midnight Clear; It Came upon a Midnight Clear; It Came Upon The Midnight Clear; Jag ser en stjärna på himmelen; Jag ser en stjaerna pa himmelen; Jag ser en stjarna pa himmelen
"It Came Upon the Midnight Clear", sometimes rendered as "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear", is an 1849 poem and Christmas carol written by Edmund Sears, pastor of the Unitarian Church in Wayland, Massachusetts. In 1850, Sears' lyrics were set to "Carol", a tune written for the poem the same year at his request, by Richard Storrs Willis.