Dec 17 2006
on the sixth day of Christmas
One more week till Christmas Eve!! I hope you’re all doing better than I am with Christmas shopping. Yikes!
Today’s goodies are:
Assortment of five Inspiration Sheets
Four bookmark sleeves
Pack of Charms
Stamps
Pack of Metal Accents
Assortment of red and silver tags
Some ribbon
Candy Cane Hershey Kisses
Just a bit of background info for this one. I’m sure only a handful out here know that in my church I served as a Chorister for several years. What’s funny about this is the fact that I cannot read music. Probably adding to that irony, I was in the girls Ensemble chorus group in High School. I have always loved to sing and have a great love for music, I’ve just never mastered the ability to read it. So I can lead, but can’t read. Go figure!
During this time I gained a love for the hymns we sing at church, and I’ve always liked to hear what are favorites of friends and family. Our trivia question today is on the favorite Christmas hymn of my mother’s. What makes this one suitable for trivia, is that it was also a poem I learned in school as did she. So I’m pretty sure it’s one that is familar with you, too.
TRIVIA QUESTION: This Christmas hymn was first a poem by a famous poet. It was later put to music, omitting verses four and five, and putting verse three as the final verse in the hymn. The message of this poem rings true even today.
Give me the name of the poet, the name of the hymn and the first verse!
I was trying to give a clue by saying it “rings true”. Hehehehe! I’m not good a clues! But I try.
***ETA: Louise Granlund got it right! Email me your info and I’ll get these out to you!
ANSWER: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day,
I heard the bells on Christmas day
Their old familiar carols play
And wild and sweet the words repeat
Of peace on earth, good will to men.
9 responses so far
It Came Upon A Midnight Clear ??
Written by Edmund Hamilton Sears
It came upon the midnight clear,
That glorious song of old,
From angels bending near the earth,
To touch their harps of gold:
“Peace on the earth, goodwill to men
From heavens all gracious King!”
The world in solemn stillness lay
To hear the angels sing.
Well, I think this is more a carol than a hymn, but it’s the only one I can think of by a famous poet — I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day — which was first a poem written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow called Christmas Bells.
The first verse of the song is:
I heard the bells on Christmas Day,
Their old familiar carols play,
And wild and sweet the words repeat,
Of peace on earth, good will to men.
Phillips Brooks
Oh Little Town of Bethlehem
Oh little town of Bethlehem,
How still we see thee lie!
Above thy deep and dreamless sleep
The silent stars go by;
Yet in thy dark streets shineth
The everlasting Light;
The hopes and fears of all the years
Are met in thee tonight.
Is it Christina Rosetti’s “In the Bleak Midwinter”?
In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan,
Earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone;
Snow had fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow,
In the bleak midwinter, long ago.
I love this one!
That is really making me think…
What Child is this? William Chatterton Dix
What Child is this who, laid to rest
On Mary’s lap is sleeping?
Whom Angels greet with anthems sweet,
While shepherds watch are keeping?
This, this is Christ the King,
Whom shepherds guard and Angels sing;
Haste, haste, to bring Him laud,
The Babe, the Son of Mary.
Please edit my previous post to be “the manger throne” which the 1st 3 verses became “what child is this?”
‘O Holy Night’ were written by Placide Cappeau de Roquemaure in 1847.
1. O holy night, the stars are brightly shining,
It is the night of the dear Savior’s birth;
Long lay the world in sin and error pining,
Till He appeared and the soul felt its worth.
A thrill of hope the weary soul rejoices,
For yonder breaks a new and glorious morn;
I think Mandy has it right…”I heard the bells on Christmas day”.
TFS all the trivia, I am learning a lot (I am not a tv or movie person so those go right over my head :lol:) It is so much fun:)