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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THEME, by CONRAD FERDINAND MEYER Poet's Biography
First Line: Bell, my silver tongued bell
Last Line: And thou wonderst why I toll?
Alternate Author Name(s): Meyer, Konrad
Subject(s): Bells
First Line: Bell, my silver tongued bell
Last Line: And thou wonderst why I toll?
Alternate Author Name(s): Meyer, Konrad
Subject(s): Bells
BELL, my silver tonguéd bell,
Oh, thy secret prithee tell:
Dwellst where bats and night-owls roam,
Lonely in thy moldered home;
Tell me, whence thy solemn ring?
And who taught thee, pray, to sing?
When in gloomy shaft I lay,
Night of hell I saw alway.
In this tower high and free
Through the whirling winds I see
Human sorrow graced by soul.
And thou wonderst why I toll?
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