Words by the American Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. My old Church did a Christmas Pageant on the history of this song several years ago. I pray that a few people on here get the Christmas Spirit on Christmas of all days.
German composer and conductor Robert Schumann had it so bad that he unsuccessfully committed suicide by jumping off a bridge into the Rhine River. He was put in an asylum after that until he later died.
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