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RHYMING, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The bells go chiming
Last Line: O'er high germany.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox
Subject(s): Germany; Rhyme; Germans


THE bells go chiming
O'er Germany
I sit here rhyming...

If fun were funny,
And love lived long,
And always honey
Were sweet on the tongue,
Would life be better
Or freedom free?

If each love-letter
Spelt loyalty,
If we didn't go timing
The dance with a fetter?

If gold were true gold
For alchemists
—I sit here rhyming—
And all were new gold
In morning mists?
Would laughter measure
The step of life
If each took pleasure
In each's wife?
If much were undone
In what we see
And we built up London
In High Germany;
Without much pity
For crushed out grain
We'd fling the city
Across this plain—
A phantom city
Like old Cokayne—
Where old dead passions,
Come true again
And old time fashions
Be new again,
Where jests once witty
Would start again,
And long lost pity
Take heart again.

So I sit rhyming
Of fun to be,
And the bells all go chiming
O'er High Germany.





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