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A Dream

by Edgar Allan Poe

In visions of the dark night

I have dreamed of joy departed

But a waking dream of life and light

Hath left me broken-hearted.

Ah! what is not a dream by day

To him whose eyes are ast

n things around him with a ray

Turned bak upon the past"

That holy dream - that holy dream#

$hile all the world were hiding#

Hath heered me as a lovely beam

A lonely spirit guiding.

$hat though that light# thro% storm and night#

&o trembled from afar

$hat ould there be more purely bright

In Truth%s day-star"

The Bells

by Edgar Allan Poe

I

Hear the sledges with the bells

&ilver bells!

$hat a world of merriment their melody foretells!

How they tinkle# tinkle# tinkle#

In the iy air of night!

$hile the stars that oversprinkle

All the heavens# seem to twinkle

$ith a rystalline delight'

(eeping time# time# time#

In a sort of )uni rhyme#

To the tintinnabulation that so musially wells

*rom the bells# bells# bells# bells#

Bells# bells# bells

*rom the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.

II

Hear the mellow wedding bells#

+olden bells!

$hat a world of happiness their harmony foretells!

Through the balmy air of night

How they ring out their delight!

*rom the molten-golden notes#

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And an in tune#

$hat a li,uid ditty floats

To the turtle-dove that listens# while she gloats

n the moon!

h# from out the sounding ells#

$hat a gush of euphony voluminously wells!

How it swells!How it dwells

n the *uture! how it tells

f the rapture that impels

To the swinging and the ringing

f the bells# bells# bells#

f the bells# bells# bells#bells#

Bells# bells# bells

To the rhyming and the himing of the bells!

III

Hear the loud alarum bells

Braen bells!

$hat a tale of terror# now# their turbuleny tells!

In the startled ear of night

How they sream out their affright!

Too muh horrified to speak#

They an only shriek# shriek#

ut of tune#

In a lamorous appealing to the mery of the fire#

In a mad epostulation with the deaf and franti fire#

/eaping higher# higher# higher#

$ith a desperate desire#

And a resolute endeavor#

0ow - now to sit or never#

By the side of the pale-faed moon.

h# the bells# bells# bells!

$hat a tale their terror tells

f 1espair!

How they lang# and lash# and roar!

$hat a horror they outpour

n the bosom of the palpitating air!

2et the ear it fully knows#By the twanging#

And the langing#

How the danger ebbs and flows3

2et the ear distintly 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

f the bells

f the bells# bells# bells#bells#

Bells# bells# bellsIn the lamor and the langor of the bells!

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Hear the tolling of the bells

Iron Bells!

$hat a world of solemn thought their monody ompels!

In the silene of the night#

How we shiver with affright

At the melanholy menae of their tone!

*or every sound that floats

*rom 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#

*eel a glory in so rolling

n the human heart a stone

They are neither man nor woman

They are neither brute nor human

They are +houls3

And their king it is who tolls'

And he rolls# rolls# rolls#

)olls

A paean from the bells!

And his merry bosom swells

$ith the paean of the bells!

And he danes# and he yells'

(eeping time# time# time#

In a sort of )uni rhyme#

To the paean of the bells

f the bells3

(eeping time# time# time#

In a sort of )uni rhyme#

To the throbbing of the bells

f the bells# bells# bells

To the sobbing of the bells'

(eeping time# time# time#

As he knells# knells# knells#

In a happy )uni rhyme#

To the rolling of the bells

f the bells# bells# bells3

To the tolling of the bells#

f the bells# bells# bells# bells

Bells# bells# bells

To the moaning and the groaning of the bells.