The Bells At the melancholy menace of their tone; From the rust within their throats Is a groan. And the people-ah, the people- And who tolling, tolling, tolling, Feel a glory in so rolling On the human heart a stoneThey are neither man nor woman They are neither brute nor human They are Ghouls : And their king it is who tolls; Rolls A pæan from the bells! With the pean of the bells ! Keeping time, time, time, To the throbbing of the bells Of the bells, bells, bells To the sobbing of the bells; Keeping time, time, time, 29 As he knells, knells, knells, To the rolling of the bells- To the tolling of the bells- To the moaning and the groaning of the bells. REFERENCES 1 Edgar Allan Poe. By George E. Woodberry. (Ameri can Men of Letters series.) Boston, 1885. 2 Edgar Poe and his Critics. By Sarah Helen Whitman, New York, 1860. 8 Life, by J. H. Ingram, London, 1880. 4 Poets of America. By Edmund Clarence Stedman, New York, 1890. Pp. 225-272. 6 Mrs. Osgood. |