...Union perishes, I would rather perish with it than survive its destruction. THE BELLS.—Edgar A. Foe. HEAR the sledges with the bells— Silver bells—...melody foretells ! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, With a crystalline delight; Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation...

...— Well I know, now, this dank tarn of Auber, This ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir." THE BELLS. I. HEAR the sledges with the bells — Silver bells ! What a world of merriment their melody foretells I How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night ! While the stars that overspr inkle All...

...shall take it very kind. But enough, for a time, of a child's toy. , ANONYMOUS. CXCVL— THE BELLS. All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a "crystalline delight ; Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of °Runic rhyme, To the "tintinnabulation that so musically wells From the bells,...

...THE BELLS. —Pew. Time quick and moderate. — Middle Pitch. — Pure, ringing, metallic Quality. Hear the sledges with the bells, — Silver bells!...twinkle With a crystalline delight; Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells From the bells, bells,...

...attenuations: nick, splick (the quarry man's name for a chip of stone), skin, sk\f skip, skim, skive, sketch. " How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of...over-sprinkle All the heavens seem to twinkle With a krystalline delight ! " This of Poe is comparatively cheap work, but the reader must detect in it the...

...literature. It is a wonder of verbal felicity : "Hear the pledges with the hells — Silver bells 1 What a world of merriment their melody foretells :...they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night Î While the stars that ovcreprlnkle AU the heavens, eeem to twinkle With a crystalline delight; Keeping...

...close it has degenerated into something almost like nursery rhymes. Here is its first stanza : — Hear the sledges with the bells — Silver bells ! What a world of merriment their melody foretells I How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night ! While the stars that oversprinkle All...

...followed that the rest of the river was but shallow, but thus they got over. Bwiyan. H1 THE BELLS. ' EAR the sledges with the bells— Silver bells ! What...twinkle With a crystalline delight. Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells From the bells, bells,...

...soul, and chained of limb, What is your carnival to him ? Ex. CXXVH— THE BELLS. EDGAR A, n ] IKAR the sledges with the bells, — Silver bells! What...the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twingle With a crystalline delight ; Keeping time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation...

...howe'er thy footsteps roam, That land thy country, and that spot thy home ! • CLX. THE BELLS. H1 "EAB the sledges with the bells — Silver bells ! What...tinkle, In the icy air of night ! While the stars that over sprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight ; Keeping time, time, time,...