INDEPENDENCE BELL: INDIANAPOLIS, NOVEMBER 17, 1904 THOUGH now forever still Your voice of jubilee -- We hear -- we hear, and ever will, The Bell of Liberty! Clear as the voice to them In that far night agone Pealed from the heavens o'er Bethlehem, The voice of Peace peals on! Stir all your memories up, O Independence Bell, And pour from your inverted cup The song we love so well! As you rang in the dawn Of Freedom -- tolled the knell Of Tyranny, -- ring on -- ring on -- O Independence Bell! Ring numb the wounds of wrong Unhealed in brain and breast; With music like a slumber-song Lull tearful eyes to rest. -- Ring! Independence Bell! Ring on till worlds to be Shall listen to the tale you tell Of Love and Liberty! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A PARADOX by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON ODE TO TRANQUILLITY by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE ON DONNE'S POETRY by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE JOHN MAYNARD by HORATIO ALGER JR. POEM FOR PICTURE: TO AN OIL PAINTING BY WINSLOW HOMER (DRIFTWOOD) by FRANK ANKENBRAND JR. CRICKET ON THE HEARTH by PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER MY FLOWERS by PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER |