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THE LIBRARYOFTHE UNIVERSITYOF CALIFORNIALOS ANGELES

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THE BELLSBY

EDGAR ALLAN POE,

ILLUSTRATED BYDARLEY, McCUTCHEON, FREDERICKS, PERKINS,

KING, RIORDAN AND NORTHAM.

PORTER & COATES,PHILADELPHIA.

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COPYRIGHT,i 881 ,

BY PORTER & COATES

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**$

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.ENGRAVKD BY JAS. \V. LAUDERHACH.

Illustrated Title R. Riordan.Head -piece Charles P. King.Vignette Charles P. AV//^."Hear the sledges with the bells" . . F. O. C Darlcy."What a world of merriment their

melody foretells!" 5. G. McCutchcon."'How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle" . . A. Fredericks."Hear the mellow wedding-bells" . . F. O. C. Darley.

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ILLUSTRATIONS.ARTIST.

" Golden bells!" Charles P. King."From the molten-golden notes" . F. O. C. Darley."Oh, from out the sounding cells " . R. Riordan." To the swinging and the ringing " . A. Fredericks."Hear the loud alarum-bells" . . Granville Perkins." How they scream out their affright ! " R. Riordan.

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WHAT a world of merriment their melody foretells !

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LTOW they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,In the icy air of night !While the stars that oversprinkle

All the heavens seem to twinkleWith a crystalline delight,Keeping time, time, time,

In a sort of Runic rhyme,To the tintinnabulation that so musically wellsFrom the bells, bells, bells, bells,Bells, bells, bells,From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.

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HEAR the mellow wedding-bells,

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GOLDEN bells !What a world of happiness their har-

mony foretells !Through the balmy air of night

How they ringE^_".-__ out their

5jf| delight !

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the molten-golden notes,And all in tune,What a liquid ditty floats

To the turtle-dove that listens while she gloatsOn the moon !

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OH, from, out the sounding cellsWhat a gush of euphony voluminously wells !How it swells !How it dwellsOn the Future ! how it tellsOf the rapture that impels

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O the swinging and the ringingOf the bells, bells, bells,Of the bells, bells, bells, bells,Bells, bells, bells,To the rhyming and the chiming of the

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HEAR the loud alarum-bells.Brazen bells !What a tale of terror, now, their

turbulency tells !In the startled ear of night

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HOW they scream out their affright !Too much horrified to speak,They can only shriek, shriek,Out of tune,

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IN the clamorous appealing to the mercy of the fire,

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desperate desire,And a resolute endeavor,Now now to sit or never,

By the side of the pale-facedmoon.

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\H, the bells, bells, bells!\Yhat 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 !

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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 theanger of the bells,

Of the bellsOf the bells, bells, bells, bells,Bells, bells, bells

In the clamor and the; ^ clangor of the

bells !

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H 1FEAR the tolling of the bells,Iron bells !What a world of solemn thought their monodycompels !

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FN the silence of the night,How we shiver with affrightAt the melancholy menace of their tone ;For every sound that floatsFrom the rust within their throats

Is a groan.

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ANDthe people,

ah, the people,They that dwell up*v in the steeple,

/ All alone,And who, tolling, tolling, toll-

ing,In that muffled monotone,

Feel a glory in so rollingOn the human heart a stone

They are neither man norwoman,

They are neither brutenor human,

They are ghouls :

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AND their king it is whotolls ;And he rolls, rolls, rolls,Rolls,A paean from the bells!And his merry bosom swells

With the paean of the bells !And he dances, and he yells;Keeping time, time, time,In a sort of Runic rhyme,To the paean of the bells,Of the bells :

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I/KEEPING time, time, time,Av In a sort of Runic rhyme^To the throbbing of the bells,Of the bells, bells, bellsTo the sobbing of the bells ;Keeping time, time, time,As he knells, knells, knells,In a happy Runic rhyme,To the rolling of the bells,Of the bells, bells, bellsTo the tolling of the bells,Of the bells, bells, bells, bells

Bells, bells, bellsTo the moaning and the groaning of the bells.

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