I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day

	  		

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I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day 
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Their old familiar carols play, 
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And wild and sweet the words repeat 
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Of peace on earth, good will to men. 

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I thought how, as the day had come, 
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The belfries of all Christendom 
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Had rolled along the unbroken song 
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Of peace on earth, good will to men. 

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And in despair I bowed my head: 
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"There is no peace on earth," I said, 
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"For hate is strong and mocks the song 
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Of peace on earth, good will to men." 

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Then pealed the bells more loud and deep: 
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"God is not dead, nor doth he sleep; 
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The wrong shall fail, the right prevail, 
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With peace on earth, good will to men."