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List not those cries! How strangely do they blend With the sweet bells from yonder gothic tower, Pealing athwart the water. Such the contrast Of wild religious awe to earthly clamour, For on the morrow, and the morrow’s morrow, At this still hour those bells will still peal on; But these harsh sinful cries, the moment’s offspring, Will with the moment pass to nought away, They, and the passions, even as briefly raging; And, as the echo of those cries, borne far Up the deep silvery Thames, there dies in air In the dim distance, seeming well to blend With the calm beauty of the hour, and heighten The melody of silence; so the thought On this vain uproar shall in future years Prove but a gentle memory! since we shared The cares it wooed to life, together.
List not those cries! How strangely do they blend With the sweet bells from yonder gothic tower, Pealing athwart the water. Such the contrast Of wild religious awe to earthly clamour, For on the morrow, and the morrow’s morrow, At this still hour those bells will still peal on; But these harsh sinful cries, the moment’s offspring, Will with the moment pass to nought away, They, and the passions, even as briefly raging; And, as the echo of those cries, borne far Up the deep silvery Thames, there dies in air In the dim distance, seeming well to blend With the calm beauty of the hour, and heighten The melody of silence; so the thought On this vain uproar shall in future years Prove but a gentle memory! since we shared The cares it wooed to life, together.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- Archer Gurney (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
In print by 1888: recorded in A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888). Collection publication is an upper bound for this wording, not its earliest origin, composition date or the author's lifetime.
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Page 57 · printed citation: Archer Gurney · subject: BELLS
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