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Bells Across the Snow (text by Frances Ridley Havergal)

Bells Across The Snow by Frances Ridley Havergal (1836-1879) A setting for mixed chorus of the poem, "Bells Across The Snow" by the English religious poet and hymnwriter, Frances Ridley Havergal. "Bells Across The Snow" was published in her Poetical Works (issued posthumously, 1880). The work is also known as "O Christmas, Merry Christmas." Charles Gounod (1818-1893) published the first setting of this song in 1872. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Bells Across The Snow O Christmas, merry Christmas! Is it really come again, With its memories and greetings, With its joy and with its pain? There's a minor in the carol, And a shadow in the light, And a spray of cypress twining With the holly wreath to-night. And the hush is never broken By laughter light and low, As we listen in the starlight To the Bells across the Snow. O Christmas, merry Christmas! 'Tis not so very long Since other voices blended With the carol and the song! If we could but hear them singing As they are singing now, If we could but see the radiance Of the crown on each dear brow; There would be no sigh to smother, No hidden tear to flow, As we listen in the starlight To the Bells across the Snow. O Christmas, merry Christmas! This never more can be; We cannot bring again the days Of our unshadowed glee. But Christmas, happy Christmas, Sweet herald of good-will, With holy songs of glory Brings holy gladness still. For peace and hope may brighten, And patient love may glow, As we listen in the starlight To the Bells across the Snow.