Comments on: Unsung http://timesandseasons.org/index.php/2007/12/unsung/ Truth Will Prevail Thu, 24 May 2012 23:57:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: dangermom http://timesandseasons.org/index.php/2007/12/unsung/#comment-245342 dangermom Sun, 23 Dec 2007 22:43:41 +0000 http://www.timesandseasons.org/?p=4316#comment-245342 We sang this today for our closing hymn, and as always I was all teary through most of it. It's one of my very favorites. We sang this today for our closing hymn, and as always I was all teary through most of it. It’s one of my very favorites.

]]> By: Jonovitch http://timesandseasons.org/index.php/2007/12/unsung/#comment-245299 Jonovitch Sat, 22 Dec 2007 19:29:04 +0000 http://www.timesandseasons.org/?p=4316#comment-245299 I get chills and choked up in the last verse every time we sing this in church. One of my favorites, and one of the very best. Merry Christmas. Jon I get chills and choked up in the last verse every time we sing this in church. One of my favorites, and one of the very best. Merry Christmas.

Jon

]]> By: smb http://timesandseasons.org/index.php/2007/12/unsung/#comment-245297 smb Sat, 22 Dec 2007 19:20:35 +0000 http://www.timesandseasons.org/?p=4316#comment-245297 The first Boston LDS chapel (now turned into a CES building for student wards and Institute) is across the street from his house in Cambridge. By popular tradition, it's the house where his wife burned to death, but I have not confirmed it. Thanks for a reminder of this lovely poem. The first Boston LDS chapel (now turned into a CES building for student wards and Institute) is across the street from his house in Cambridge. By popular tradition, it’s the house where his wife burned to death, but I have not confirmed it. Thanks for a reminder of this lovely poem.

]]> By: mlu http://timesandseasons.org/index.php/2007/12/unsung/#comment-245276 mlu Sat, 22 Dec 2007 03:03:39 +0000 http://www.timesandseasons.org/?p=4316#comment-245276 Thanks for this. Reading Longfellow has been one of my projects this year. He wrote before the modernist urge to challenge the authority of the past and I've been enjoying his traditional prosody and his desire to make music of orthodox belief. Thanks for this.

Reading Longfellow has been one of my projects this year. He wrote before the modernist urge to challenge the authority of the past and I’ve been enjoying his traditional prosody and his desire to make music of orthodox belief.

]]> By: Ray http://timesandseasons.org/index.php/2007/12/unsung/#comment-245273 Ray Sat, 22 Dec 2007 01:47:44 +0000 http://www.timesandseasons.org/?p=4316#comment-245273 Thanks, Kaimi. Thanks, Kaimi.

]]> By: Sonny http://timesandseasons.org/index.php/2007/12/unsung/#comment-245268 Sonny Fri, 21 Dec 2007 21:53:30 +0000 http://www.timesandseasons.org/?p=4316#comment-245268 Here is a nice <a href="http://www.whatsaiththescripture.com/Fellowship/Edit_I.Heard.the.Bells.html" rel="nofollow">site</a> that provides some additional background. Here is a nice site that provides some additional background.

]]> By: Jack http://timesandseasons.org/index.php/2007/12/unsung/#comment-245265 Jack Fri, 21 Dec 2007 21:11:21 +0000 http://www.timesandseasons.org/?p=4316#comment-245265 Never let it be said that art is not to be found in plain perfectly rhymed verse. Never let it be said that art is not to be found in plain perfectly rhymed verse.

]]> By: mmiles http://timesandseasons.org/index.php/2007/12/unsung/#comment-245261 mmiles Fri, 21 Dec 2007 18:35:28 +0000 http://www.timesandseasons.org/?p=4316#comment-245261 This is my husband's favorite hymn. This is my husband’s favorite hymn.

]]> By: Jacob M http://timesandseasons.org/index.php/2007/12/unsung/#comment-245256 Jacob M Fri, 21 Dec 2007 17:35:53 +0000 http://www.timesandseasons.org/?p=4316#comment-245256 Wow. This has always been one of my favorite hymns, so thank you for giving it context. What Christmas is really about. Wow. This has always been one of my favorite hymns, so thank you for giving it context. What Christmas is really about.

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