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The carol, I heard the Bells on Christmas Day uses the words from the poem Christmas Bells by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. He wrote this poem after being advised that his son had died fighting in the American Civil War, and then hearing the Christmas Bells ringing at midnight for Christmas morning.

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