I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day: Organ Prelude
Автор: Anthony Abroad
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Organist Anthony Asmar performs an improvisation on "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day," at Sacred Heart Church in Norfolk, Virginia as a prelude for the Vigil Mass of the Feast of the Holy Family, on December 28, 2024.
"I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day" is a carol based on the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, "Christmas Bells."
Poem Text:
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!
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!
Then from each black, accursed mouth
The cannon thundered in the South,
And with the sound
The carols drowned
Of peace on 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 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."
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