Edgar Allan Poe – Oct 28, Iyengar II & I

It’s Halloweeeeeeeeen! Poe of course! So fun to read.

THE BELLS

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IV.

Hear the tolling of the bells—

Iron bells!

….

And who, tolling, tolling, tolling,

In that muffled monotone,

Feel a glory in so rolling

On the human heart a stone—

They are neither man nor woman—

They are neither brute nor human—

They are Ghouls:—

And their king is who tolls:—

And he rolls, rolls, rolls,

Rolls

A paean from the bells!

And his merry bosom swells

With the paean of the bells!

And he dances, and he yells;

Keeping time, time, time,

In a sort of Runic rhyme,

To the paean of the bells:—

Of the bells:

Keeping time, time, time

In a sort of Runic rhyme,

To the throbbing of the bells—

Of the bells, bells, bells—

To the sobbing of the bells:

Keeping time, time, time,

As he knells, knells, knells,

In a happy Runic rhyme,

To the rolling of the bells

Of "the bells, bells, bells:

To the tolling of the bells

Of the bells, bells, bells, bells,

Bells, bells, bells

To the moaning and the groaning of the bells.