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"I will hold Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year." - Charles Dickens.


Christmas Poetry


Christmas Bells

    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-willl 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!’

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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