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How sweet on the breeze of the evening swellsLike a requiem sung to the parting day.
— Bells
How sweet on the breeze of the evening swellsLike a requiem sung to the parting day.
Hark! the bonny Christ-Church bells, And they troul so merrily.
That all-softening, overpowering knell,The tocsin of the soul—the dinner bell.
How soft the music of those village bells,Where Memory slept.
The church-going bell.
The vesper bell from farThat seems to mourn for the expiring day.
Your voices break and falter in the darkness,—Break, falter, and are still.
Bells call others, but themselves enter not into the Church.
Dear bells! how sweet the sound of village bellsWhen on the undulating air they swim!
While the steeples are loud in their joy,For we all should be able to sing Hullah baloo.
The old mayor climbed the belfry tower, Play uppe The Brides of Enderby."
I call the Living—I mourn the Dead—I break the Lightning.
The cheerful Sabbath bells, wherever heard,Tidings of good to Zion.
For bells are the voice of the church; The hearts of young and old.
Seize the loud, vociferous bells, andHurl them from their windy tower!
These bells have been anointed,And baptized with holy water!
He heard the convent bell,For the service of noonday.
The bells themselves are the best of preachers,Now a sermon and now a prayer.
Bell, thou soundest merrily, Fields deserted lie!
It cometh into court and pleads the causeThe bell of Atri famous for all time.
Hear the mellow wedding bells, On the moon!
With deep affection Their magic spells.
And the Sabbath bell,With sounds most musical, most melancholy.
Around, around,That calls to those in friendship bound.
Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh.
Then get thee gone and dig my grave thyself,That thou art crowned, not that I am dead.
Hark, how chimes the passing bell!A loud echo to this tone.]
Ring in the valiant man and free,Ring in the Christ that is to be.
Ring out old shapes of foul disease;Ring in the thousand years of peace.
Ring out the old, ring in the new,Ring, happy bells, across the snow.
Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,The flying cloud, the frosty light.
Softly the loud peal dies, Tender tones.
Curfew must not ring to-night.
How like the leper, with his own sad cryTo warn us from the place of jeopardy!
