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b'HW Longfellow read by Classic Poetry Aloud:\\nhttp://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/\\n\\nGiving voice to the poetry of the past.\\n\\n---------------------------------------------------\\n\\nChristmas Bells\\nby Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 \\u2013 1882)\\n\\nI heard the bells on Christmas Day\\nTheir old, familiar carols play,\\nAnd wild and sweet\\nThe words repeat\\nOf peace on earth, good-will to men!\\nAnd thought how, as the day had come,\\nThe belfries of all Christendom\\nHad rolled along\\nThe unbroken song\\nOf peace on earth, good-will to men!\\n\\nTill, ringing, singing on its way\\nThe world revolved from night to day,\\nA voice, a chime,\\nA chant sublime\\nOf peace on earth, good-will to men!\\n\\nThen from each black, accursed mouth\\nThe cannon thundered in the South,\\nAnd with the sound\\nThe Carols drowned\\nOf peace on earth, good-will to men!\\n\\nAnd in despair I bowed my head;\\n\\u2018There is no peace on earth,\\u2019 I said;\\n\\u2018For hate is strong,\\nAnd mocks the song\\nOf peace on earth, good-will to men!\\u2019\\n\\nThen pealed the bells more loud and deep:\\n\\u2018God is not dead; nor doth he sleep!\\nThe Wrong shall fail,\\nThe Right prevail,\\nWith peace on earth, good-will to men!\\u2019\\n\\n\\nFirst aired: 25 December 2007\\n\\nFor hundreds more poetry readings, visit the Classic Poetry Aloud index.\\n\\nReading \\xa9 Classic Poetry Aloud 2008'