Hear the sledges with the bells -- Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle 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, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells -- From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.
Four Dramatic Songs
Song Cycle by Edward Francis Fitzwilliam (1824 - 1857)
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Language: English
Text Authorship:
- by Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849), no title, appears in The Bells, no. 1
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- FRE French (Français) (Stéphane Mallarmé) , no title, appears in Les cloches, no. 1
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