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THOSE EVENING BELLS
Those evening bells! Those evening bells!
How many a tale
their music tells,
Of youth, and home, and that sweet time,
When last I heard their soothing chime!
Those joyous hours are past away!
And many a heart that then was gay
Within the tomb now darkly dwells,
And hears no more those evening bells!
And so it will be when I’m gone;
That tuneful peal will still ring on,
While other bards shall walk these dells
And sing your praise sweet evening bells!
By Thomas Moore
THE ARROW AND THE SONG
I shot an arrow into the air,
It fell to earth, I
knew not where,
For so swiftly it flew, the sight
Could not follow it in it’s flight
I breathed a song into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where,
For who has sight so keen and strong,
That it can follow the flight of a song?
Long, long afterwards in an oak
I
found the arrow, still unbroke
And the song, from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend.
* * *
England! With all thy faults, I love thee still,
I
assid at Calais, and have not forgot it.
I like the taxes when they’re not too many;
I like a sea-coal fire, when not too dear;
I
like a beef-steak, too, as well as any;
Have no objection, to a pot of beer;
I like the weather when it is not rainy,
That is, I like two months of every year.
By George
Byron
148
WOODS IN WINTER
Whose woods these are. I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see
me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The
only other sound the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep.
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
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