THE SABBATH EVENING BELLS.
Hark ! hark ! I hear the Sabbath bells, How solemnly they chime ! They sound to me like funeral knells Over the grave of Time ! Tolling and rolling Their notes into the night ; 'Replying and dying In echoes faint and light. A voice in every peal that swells Awakens this sad thought — That some will listen to those bells When I am long forgot. Ringing and singing, A requiem for the dead ; Replying and sighing For the weary spirit fled. And, listening to their plaintive chimes, They'll linger fondly o'er The memories of bye-gone times, Aa I have done before. For ever ! and never ! They'll still be heard to say ; Never ! and for ever ! As the years pass away.
JAQDES.
Castle-street, Dunedin.
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Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 158, 16 February 1871, Page 7
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124THE SABBATH EVENING BELLS. Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 158, 16 February 1871, Page 7
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