Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-06-18
TELLs. BELLS. BELLS!
The Literature of she world full of
Bells and RzUsfC--DlcEenN' Par
TALLY 10 ESGils in ERis Novels.

EELLs BELLS, EELLS
The Literature of che world full of
Bells and RzUsiC--DlckenS' Par
TALLY 10 EselIs'in EEIs Novels.
Many people are peculiarly sensitive to
the sound of bells and become merry or
Ead, Us their memories may be affected
Those evening bells! those evening bellsI
How many n tale their music tells
OF youth, and home and that sweet time,
When last lcard their soothing chime!
SO sang Tom Moore, and lie only uttered
what everyone feels.
BourTieunc relates Of the first Napoleon,
that one time walking with him in an
avenue ut MaInaison, they heard the viii
lago bell Napoleon stopped, listened
intently, then in voice trembling with
emotion, said: THAT recalls 10 lie the
first years passed Mt I1ienLe."
In one Of the dormitories in the Irish
college at Rome there is Il space on the
wall left ever unpapercd and Imprinted,
whatever repairs the rest OF the room may
undergo, for there, Carelessly scrawlcd, is
the first rough draft Of Pather PrOuts
Bells of Shandon. What food of tender
melody steals over US as we read that inn
mortal poem, though We may never have
heard those famous )els, and have dwelt
far enough away from the church and
epire Of SAandon,
With deep affection
And recollection
Those Shan Ion bells
V hose sounds SO wild w0uli,
In the days of childhood.
Fling lounu nay cradle
Then magic spell.
OnfbieI parder
Nhere'cr wander,
And thus grow fon4rr,
Sweet Cork. of thee
With thy bells OF Saaldon,
That :ound so gtandon
1hc pleasant waters
OF tie river Ice.
Guy Literature is tull Ct bells and bell
music Eouthcy calls the sound Of the
bells the poetry OF steeplca," ard George
Herbert says
Think when the hcIls do chino.
Wis angel'smrsic,
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| "aFo4oelstlc SoitheEs, (" liaI Il ueIlHltlon
lohg tilhe' says MF Mah'llihl 10 New
man NoSSs' you nave Aept me ringing
ut thiS cohlouhaeu oRt cracAeu teaNettle
Vi d Eeil every lihlNle ol which ID enough
TO 'hIo" u STRONG man liito COIN uislohs'
upon my me ana so'li-ol ocnlm1UE
sarey Camps bcI II "Ih2 2leateSt
htle bell TO ing mat ever was" ana
there was another winch produced only
"tWo dead tlhkles'" II there ever was an
observer OF how bells I&ng and who could
translate Their sounds into wise and witty
English, Dickens was mat observer The
music and sound OF bells have never been
more eNqulaItely described man IN Poe's
OcaQlllul poem or "lhe bells," the IAN
guage OF which Is as rcGson&nt AZ the
bells II describes.
twenty-five OF thirty years ago the@Wla
Bel Ringers were all the rage, ana drew
vast Groves 10 their concerts Nho thai
heard them Will ever forget "The Wreck
cr's Daughter" "The Carnival OF "Nen'
ice" cine Monasjry Bclls," ana "Mee'