For Christmas, Poems of Memory and Peace

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For Christmas, Poems of Memory and Peace
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Since the Victorian era, poets have helped create the holiday’s sounds and images—and reminded us of its meaning

‘Then pealed the bells more loud and deep: / ‘God is not dead, nor doth He sleep,’” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow proclaims in the tremendous final verse of his 1865 Civil War poem “Christmas Bells.

” We tend to forget how significant a figure Longfellow seemed in the 19th century—how significant poetry itself seemed, for that matter. By the 1880s, the poem was a standard in church hymnals and parlor songbooks under the title “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day,” with a melody by the organist John Baptiste Calkin:

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