‘I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day’

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote these verses in 1863 at the height of the Civil War, and on the heels of personal tragedy: his wife died in a fire, and his son was severely wounded in battle.

Sung by Burl Ives, I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day.

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