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First Line: Those evening bells, those evening bells
Last Line: Forget to stay those evening bells.
Subject(s): Bells; Moore, Thomas (1779-1852)


THOSE Evening Bells, those Evening Bells,
How many a tale their music tells,
Of Yorkshire cakes and crumpets prime,
And letters only just in time! --

The Muffin-boy has pass'd away,
That Postman gone -- and I must pay,
For down below Deaf Mary dwells,
And does not hear those Evening Bells.

And so't will be when she is gone,
The tuneful peal will still ring on,
And other maids with timely yells
Forget to stay those Evening Bells.





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