Christmas carols have second, third, and fourth verses.“It Came Upon the Midnight Clear” (1849, Edmund Hamilton Sears) And man at w ar with man hear s not The tidings which they bring. O, hush the noise, y e men of strife And hear the an gels sing. O ye, beneath life’s crushin g load Whose forms are bending low, Who toil along the climbing way With painful steps an...