Merry Christmas -- Quotes -- Poem

Christmas is a time when we get homesick even when youre home. -- Carol Nelson

I listened a bells upon Yuletide Day
Their old, informed carols play,
And furious and sweet
The words repeat
Of assent upon earth, good-will to men! -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

For somehow, not usually at Christmas, though all a long year through, The joy that we give to others is a joy that comes back to you. -- John Greenleaf Whittier



From Bob and Dorothy
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Christmas Bells
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Written upon Yuletide Day 1863)
I listened a bells upon Yuletide Day
Their old, informed carols play,
And furious and sweet
The words repeat
Of assent upon earth, good-will to men!

And suspicion how, as a day had come,
The belfries of all Christendom
Had rolled along
The unbroken song
Of assent upon earth, good-will to men!

Till ringing, singing upon its way,
The world revolved from night to day,
A voice, a chime,
A chant sublime
Of assent upon earth, good-will to men!

Then from each black, accursed mouth
The gunnery unit thundered in a South,
And with a sound
The carols drowned
Of assent upon earth, good-will to men!

It was as if an earthquake rent
The hearth-stones of a continent,
And made forlorn
The households born
Of assent upon earth, good-will to men!

And in despondency we bowed my head;
There is no assent upon earth, we said;
For hatred is strong,
And mocks a song
Of assent upon earth, good-will to men!

Then pealed a bells some-more loud and deep:
God is not dead, nor doth He sleep;
The Wrong shall fail,
The Right prevail,
With assent upon earth, good-will to men.



From:http://www.alzheimersreadingroom.com/2009/12/merry-christmas-quotes.html