Behind the Song: I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day
I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day was a Christmas poem {turned hymn} written in the mist of the Civil War in 1863 by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The song begins with the narrator in despair and ends with a note of hope and renewal. Earlier in 1863, Longfellow’s oldest son, Charles Appleton Longfellow, had joined the Union army without his […]
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