Sounds of the season, day 5 “It Came Upon the Midnight Clear” (Wikipedia/YouTube) is another grim carol from 19th-century America. It has that distinctively Unitarian sensibility of cosmic optimism tempered with awareness that people are typically terrible. Share this: Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Print (Opens in new window) Print Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share on Mastodon (Opens in new window) Mastodon Share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit Share on Tumblr (Opens in new window) Tumblr Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) LinkedIn