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Christmas Bells · Ririro.com - Poetry

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  Speaker 1: Christmas bells. Heard the bells on Christmas Day, their old
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  Speaker 1: familiar carols play and wild and sweet, the words repeat
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  Speaker 1: of peace on Earth, good will to men. And thought,
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  Speaker 1: how as the day had come, the belfries of all
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  Speaker 1: Christendom had rolled along the unbroken song of peace on Earth,
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  Speaker 1: good will to men, till ringing, singing on its way,
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  Speaker 1: the world revolved from night to day, a voice, a chime,
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  Speaker 1: a chant sublime, of peace on Earth, good will to men.
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  Speaker 1: Then from each black a cursed mouth, the cannon thundered
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  Speaker 1: in the south, and with the sound the carols drowned
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  Speaker 1: of Peace on Earth, good will to men. It was
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  Speaker 1: as if an earthquake rent the hearthstones of a continent
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  Speaker 1: and made forlorn the households born of peace on Earth,
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  Speaker 1: good will to men. And in despair I bowed my head.
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  Speaker 1: There is no peace on earth, I said, for hate
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  Speaker 1: is strong and mocks the song of peace on Earth,
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  Speaker 1: good will to men. Then peeled the bells more loud
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  Speaker 1: and deep. God is not dead, nor does he sleep.
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  Speaker 1: The wrong shall fail, the right prevail, with peace on Earth,
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  Speaker 1: good will to men.