The Bells
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What a tale their terror tells of despair!
How they clang, and clash, and roar!
What a horror they outpour
on the bosom of the palpitating air!
Yet the ear, it fully knows,
by the twanging,
and the clanging,
how the danger ebbs and flows;
yet, the ear distinctly tells,
in the jangling, and the wrangling,
how the danger sinks and swells,
by the sinking or the swelling in the anger of the bells --
of the bells --
in the clamour and the clangour of the bells!
IV.
Hear the tolling of the bells --
Iron bells!
What a world of solemn thought their monody compels!
In the silence of the night,
how we shiver with affright
at the melancholy meaning of their tone!
For every sound that floats
from the rust within their throats is a groan.
And the people -- ah, the people --
they that dwell up in the steeple, all alone,
and who, tolling, tolling, tolling,
in that muffled monotone,
feel a glory in so rolling
on the human heart a stone --
they are neither man nor woman --
they are neither brute nor human --
they are Ghouls: --
and their King it is who tolls;
and he rolls, rolls, rolls, rolls, rolls
a pæan from the bells!
And his merry bosom swells
with the pæan of the bells!
And he dances, and he yells;
in a sort of runic rhyme,
to the pæan of the bells --
of the bells:
in a sort of runic rhyme,
to the throbbing of the bells --
of the bells, bells, bells --
to the sobbing of the bells;
as he knells, knells, knells,
in a happy runic rhyme,
to the rolling of the bells --
of the bells, bells, bells --
to the tolling of the bells,
of the bells, bells, bells, bells --
to the moaning and the groaning of the bells.
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