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I woke up on Friday morning with the words of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s Christmas poem in my head.  It is one of my favorite Christmas songs.  The words are deep and heartfelt. Unlike many songs associated with the season, it was not written out of a joyful or happy experience.  Longfellow had a long historyContinue reading “In Despair I Bowed My Head…”