Posted on 12/25/2020 8:06:35 AM PST by Kaslin
If ever there was a year we needed Christmas, 2020 is that year. COVID-19, thousands of deaths, racial strife, massive election fraud that has unmasked deep corruption at all levels of government, moral cowardice from politicians, Chinese infiltration... But as bleak as 2020 is, America has seen years that were at least as bad.
Christmas 1864 was a dreary one for Henry Wadsworth Longfellow when he sat down to draft his poem Christmas Bells. He had been through personal anguish over the recent years. The nation was in the throes of a costly domestic conflict. The American Civil War would eventually end the lives of up to 800,000 Americans, over two percent of the population. The horrible reality of that war would eventually come home to Longfellow. “Peace on earth, good will to men” seemed unrealistic, if not an outright lie.
Though stories of war tragedies would cause the nation to mourn, in 1861 Longfellow suffered a more personal tragedy. Out of that personal tragedy and the horrors of the Civil War, Longfellow would pen his hopeful Christmas Bells poem on Christmas Day 1864. That poem would later become the inspiration for the Christmas carol “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day.”
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!
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Blessed Merry Christmas 🎄!
Talk about timing!
I had no idea this thread was being posted at the same time that I was thinking of the song.
Alarm bells, heh. I would not be surprised if there were a pun on a name.
Awesome
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