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Peace on Earth · Ririro.com - Poetry

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  Speaker 1: Peace on Earth. I heard the bells on Christmas Day,
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  Speaker 1: their old familiar carols play and wild and sweet, the
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  Speaker 1: words repeat of peace on Earth, good will to men.
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  Speaker 1: And thought, how as the day had come, the belfries
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  Speaker 1: of all Christendom had rolled along the unbroken song of
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  Speaker 1: peace on Earth, good will to men, till ringing, singing
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  Speaker 1: on its way, the world revolved from night to day,
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  Speaker 1: a voice, a chime, a chant sublime, of peace on Earth,
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  Speaker 1: good will to men. Then from each black accursed mouth
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  Speaker 1: the cannon thundered in the south, and with the sound
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  Speaker 1: carols drowned of peace on Earth, good will to men.
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  Speaker 1: It was as if an earthquake rent the hearthstones of
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  Speaker 1: a continent and made forlorn the households born of peace
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  Speaker 1: on Earth, good will to men. And in despair I
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  Speaker 1: bowed my head. There is no peace on earth, I said, hide.
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  Speaker 1: Hate is strong. The 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 doth 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.