Christmas Poem

Every year I like to include a Christmas poem on our Christmas blog.  This year, this old and beautiful poem caught my heart.

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 the 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