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Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry. 1904.

Descriptive Poems: II. Nature and Art

“Those evening bells”

Thomas Moore (1779–1852)

THOSE evening bells! those evening bells!

How many a tale their music tells

Of youth, and home, and that sweet time

When last I heard their soothing chime!

Those joyous hours are passed away;

And many a heart that then was gay

Within the tomb now darkly dwells,

And hears no more those evening bells.

And so ’t will be when I am gone,—

That tuneful peal will still ring on;

While other bards shall walk these dells,

And sing your praise, sweet evening bells.