Christmas Morning

The bells ring out, this Christmas morn

Author: Sanford Fillmore Bennett
Tune: [The bells ring out, this Christmas morn]
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1 The bells ring out, this Christmas morn,
From every steeple high,
To greet the day when Christ was born,
In humble couch to lie.
Long years ago this very day
The blessed Savior came,
To show on earth redemption’s way,
And wash away our blame.

2 Then blessed be the Christmas time,
Whose bounties all may share!
It celebrates the love divine,
That had our souls in care.
That we lose not the gracious gift,
That Christmas morning bore,
Our joyful voices let us lift,
To praise and to adore.

Source: The Cyber Hymnal #13086

Author: Sanford Fillmore Bennett

Sanford Fillmore Bennett was born in Eden, New York, 21 June 1836. He and his parents moved to Plainfield, Illinois when he was two years old. He worked on the farm and attended district school during the winter. He was a voracious reader. At sixteen he entered Waukegon Academy. Two years later he began teaching at Wauconda. In 1858 he entered the University of Michigan, Afterward he had charge of the schools in Richmond, Illinois. Two years later he resigned and became Associate Editor of the Independent at Elkhorn, Wisconsin. In 1864 he enlisted in the Wisconsin Volunteers and served as Second Lieutenant. After the war he returned to Elkhorn and opened a drug store and began the study of medicine. He graduated from Rush Medical College in… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: The bells ring out, this Christmas morn
Title: Christmas Morning
Author: Sanford Fillmore Bennett
Meter: 8.6.8.6 D
Source: The Signet Ring by Joseph P. Webster (Chicago: Lyon & Healy, 1868)
Copyright: Public Domain

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