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 Seize the loud, vociferous fells, and
 Clashing, clanging to the pavement
  Hurl them from their windy tower!  
 Seize the loud, vociferous fells, and
 Clashing, clanging to the pavement
  Hurl them from their windy tower! 
 Those evening bells! those evening bells!
 How many a tale their music tells!  
 Those evening bells! those evening bells!
 How many a tale their music tells! 
 The cheerful Sabbath bells, wherever heard,
 Strike pleasant on the sense, most like the voice
  Of one, read more 
 The cheerful Sabbath bells, wherever heard,
 Strike pleasant on the sense, most like the voice
  Of one, who from the far-off hills proclaims
   Tidings of good to Zion. 
 Hear the sledges with the bells,
 Silver bells!
  What a world of merriment their melody foretells!
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 Hear the sledges with the bells,
 Silver bells!
  What a world of merriment their melody foretells!
   How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,
    In the icy air of night,
     While the stars that oversprinkle
      All the Heavens seem to twinkle
       With a crystalline delight:
        Keeping time, time, time,
         In a sort of Runic rhyme
          To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells
           From the bells, bells, bells, bells,
            Bells, bells, bells--
             From the jingling and the tingling of the bells. 
 Your voices break and falter in the darkness,--
 Break, falter, and are still.  
 Your voices break and falter in the darkness,--
 Break, falter, and are still. 
 Dear bells! how sweet the sound of village bells
 When on the undulating air they swim!  
 Dear bells! how sweet the sound of village bells
 When on the undulating air they swim! 
 And this be the vocation fit,
 For which the founder fashioned it;
  High, high above earth's life, read more 
 And this be the vocation fit,
 For which the founder fashioned it;
  High, high above earth's life, earth's labor
   E'en to the heaven's blue vault to soar.
    To hover as the thunder's neighbor,
     The very firmament explore.
      To be a voice as from above
       Like yonder stars so bright and clear,
        That praise their Maker as they move,
         And usher in the circling year.
          Tun'd be its metal mouth alone
           To things eternal and sublime.
            And as the swift wing'd hours speed on
             May it record the flight of time! 
 And I, of ladies most deject and wretched,
 That sucked the honey of his music vows,
  Now read more 
 And I, of ladies most deject and wretched,
 That sucked the honey of his music vows,
  Now see that noble and most sovereign reason
   Like sweet bells jangled, out of time and harsh,
    That unmatched form and feature of blown youth
     Blasted with ecstasy. 
 He heard the convent bell,
 Suddenly in the silence ringing
  For the service of noonday.  
 He heard the convent bell,
 Suddenly in the silence ringing
  For the service of noonday.