Notwithstanding the loss and pain he suffered (the first Christmas after Fanny's death, he wrote: "How inexpressibly sad are all holidays"), Longfellow didn't lose faith. Here are the words to the last stanza of the poem (which, however, is the penultimate verse of the carol) as heard on this tone: Then pealed the bells more loud and deep: "God is not dead nor doth he sleep; The wrong shall fail, the right prevail, With peace on earth good will to men."
