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  • "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day”

    Here is a nice article about the story behind Longfellow's, "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day”

    Longfellow, a 57-year-old widower, sat in his home while his oldest son recovered from a wound in the Civil War. Here's the background to a powerful poem.
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    Re: "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day”

    And here is the poem:

    I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day
    By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

    I heard the bells on Christmas Day
    Their old, familiar carols play,

    and wild and sweet
    The words repeat
    Of peace on earth, good-will to men!

    And thought how, as the day had come,
    The belfries of all Christendom

    Had rolled along
    The unbroken song
    Of peace on earth, good-will to men!

    Till ringing, singing on its way,
    The world revolved from night to day,

    A voice, a chime,
    A chant sublime
    Of peace on earth, good-will to men!

    Then from each black, accursed mouth
    The cannon thundered in the South,

    And with the sound
    The carols drowned
    Of peace on earth, good-will to men!

    It was as if an earthquake rent
    The hearth-stones of a continent,

    And made forlorn
    The households born
    Of peace on earth, good-will to men!

    And in despair I bowed my head;
    “There is no peace on earth,” I said;

    “For hate is strong,
    And mocks the song
    Of peace on earth, good-will to men!”

    Then pealed the bells more loud and deep:
    “God is not dead, nor doth He sleep;

    The Wrong shall fail,
    The Right prevail,
    With peace on earth, good-will to men.”
    ERIC TIPTON
    Former AC Owner

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