Christmas
Hark, What Sounds Are Sweetly Stealing
- Words:
- Unknown
- Music:
- Unknown
Sheet music
- 1Hark! what sounds are sweetly stealing,Soft thru Bethle'm's midnight air?Louder yet, and louder pealing,Angel accents sure are there.See! a light from heav'n is streamingNight and darkness quit the plain;See! an angel brightly beaming,Followed by a radiant train.
- 2"Fear not, shepherds! glad my story,Tidings of the greatest joy:Christ is born, the Lord of glory!I proclaim a Savior nigh.“Thus the angel, then ascending,Seeks again the realms of light;Now the chorus faintly ending,All is silence, all is night.
In the hymnals
- The words are in 18 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The sheet music and words are from PDHymns.com. The piano is the FluidR3 General MIDI sound font (MIT licence). How many hymnals print a hymn, and when it was written, is from Hymnary.org.