WORLD SOUNDSCAPE PROJECT
SOUND REFERENCES IN LITERATURE


301.

THE BELLS

 

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.

 

E. A. Poe.


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