The Bells
Hear the sledges with the bell
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Silver bell
What a world of merrimen
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Their melody foretell
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How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkl
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In the icy air of nigh
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All the heavens seem to twinkl
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With a crystalline deligh
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Keeping time, time, tim
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With a sort of Runic rhym
From the tintinnabulatio
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That so musically well
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From the bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bell
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From the jingling and the tinkling of the bell
Hear the mellow wedding bell
Golden bell
What a world of happines
Their harmony foretell
Through the balmy air of nigh
How they ring out their deligh
Through the dances and the yell
And the rapture that impel
How it swell
How it dwell
On the futur
How it tell
From the swinging and the ringing of the molten golden bell
Of the bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bell
Of the rhyming and the chiming of the bell
Hear the loud alarum bell
Brazen bell
What a tale of terror no
Their turbulency tell
Much too horrified to spea
Oh, they can only shrie
For all the ears to kno
How the danger ebbs and flow
Leaping higher, higher, highe
With a desperate desir
In a clamorous appealing to the mercy of the fir
With the bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bell
With the clamor and the clanging of the bell
Hear the tolling of the bell
Iron bell
What a world of solemn thought their monody compel
For all the sound that float
From the rust within our throat
And the people sit and groa
In their muffled monoton
And the tolling, tolling, tollin
Feels a glory in the rollin
From the throbbing and the sobbin
Of the melancholy bell
Oh, the bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bell
Oh, the moaning and the groaning of the bells.
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