Boosey & Hawkes

Christmas Bells

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Mary Goetze
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SSA a cappella
Longfellow wrote the text, entitled “Christmas Bells,” in 1863. During that Christmas season, the poet's son was critically wounded in a war, and the text expresses his father's anguish over was and his longing for peace on earth. The message is as timely today as it was over 125 years ago.