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Post by Robert Braun on Dec 23, 2005 9:53:37 GMT -5
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.'
I thought how as that day had come The belfries of all Christendom Had rolled along th' unbroken song 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.
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.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1864. Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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