The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-12-28

same terror as the evil spirits waiting for their victim. In
the year 61O when OothalTe H. KING OF rance peseeo
the bells of St Stephens to be rung and as late as 1885,
Calxtus Ill employed the device as security against
the dreaded Osans who considered bells their most dan
foe whence they this time called Turks BELLS
Among the Greeks, those who went the nightly rounds IN
camps garrisons carried with them little BELLS which they
rung each sentry to see that the soldiers on watch
were awake codonophorus, bellman, also walked In
funeral professions some In advance OF the corpse not
keep off the crowd but advertise the dnen dds
keep out of the way lest he should be polluted by the
sight by the Itinerary music The priest Of Prosperine
at Athens called hi ophanes rung the bell to call people
sacrifice There also bells in the houses of great
call the servants in the morning Zonares informs us that
bells suspended along with whips on the trlumphal
charios of victorious generals In order to put them IN mind
that they still liable to public justice Bells were also
put the necks of criminals going execution that persons
might be warned by the noise to avoided i'll omen
the sight of the hangman or the condemned CRIMINAL VINO
was devoted the di We find in history mention
of bells the necks of brues and taking them away was
construed theft by the civil law. The custom III the United
States of putting bells cows sweep etc. to prevent their
sraying away, doubtless grew out of this practice OF the
anclents.
In our cities alarm bells rung extent
dreamed Of and their sound grown familiar to
ears longer inspires terror as calls the remen to
their duties In the quaint old rhymes of the monks and
the songs of poets which the of the
bell this modern application of it is not alluded to- Their
various early have been summed up IN the following
old distich:
Laudo plebum clerum deuncus
poro pestem tugo fiesta decoro.
We shall bid good-by to bells for the present. but
before doing will ring what every lover of sweet sounds
but every Irishman in particular thank for THE
BELLS OF SHANDoN by Father Prou, REV Frank Mahony
who buried in old Shandon church, city of Cork not
many months ago, beneath the swing of those bells whose
music he has mmortazed in In "The Reliques Of
Father Prou discussion about the melody of bells is thus
concluded:
All these matters agreed very fine; but there
is nothing after all like the associations which early infancy
attaches the weknown and remembered chimes of
parish seepe and no music can equal on our ears
when returning after long absence in foreign and perhaps
happier countries"
BELLS sHANDoN.
With deep affection
And recollection
I often think of
Those Shandon BELLS
Whose sounds wild would,
In the days of childhood,
Fling round my cradle
Their magic spells.
On this ponder
Whereer [ wander,
And thus grow fonder,
Sweet Cork, of thee;
With thy bells of Shandon
That sound grand on
The pleasant waters
OF the river Lee.
I've heard bells Ginning
Full many a cline in,
Tolling sublime in
Cathedral shrine,
While at glib rate
Brass tongues would vibrate
But all their music
Spoke naught like thine.
For memory, dwelling
On each proud swelling
OF thy belfry knelng
Its bold notes free,
Made the bells of Shandon
Sound far grand
The pleasant waters
Of the river Lee.
I've heard bells tolling
Old "Adrian's Mole" in
Their thunders rolling
From the Vatican,
And cymbas glorious
Swinging uproarious
In the gorgeous turrets
OF Notre Dame.
But thy sounds sweeer
Than the dome of Peter
Filings DER the Tiber
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