III + 

Hear the loud alarum bellsвБ†вАФ + 

Brazen bells! + 

What a tale of terror now their turbulency tells! + 

In the startled ear of night + 

How they scream out their affright! + 

Too much horrified to speak, + 

They can only shriek, shriek, + 

Out of tune, + 

In a clamorous appealing to the mercy of the fire, + 

In a mad expostulation with the deaf and frantic fire, + 

Leaping higher, higher, higher, + 

With a desperate desire, + 

And a resolute endeavor + 

NowвБ†вАФnow to sit or never, + 

By the side of the pale-faced moon. + 

Oh, the bells, bells, bells! + 

What a tale their terror tells + 

Of Despair! + 

How they clang, and clash, and roar! + 

What a horror they outpour + 

On the bosom of the palpitating air! + 

Yet the ear it fully knows, + 

By the twanging, + 

And the clanging, + 

How the danger ebbs and flows; + 

Yet the ear distinctly tells, + 

In the jangling, + 

And the wrangling, + 

How the danger sinks and swells, + 

By the sinking or the swelling in the anger of the bellsвБ†вАФ + 

Of the bellsвБ†вАФ + 

Of the bells, bells, bells, bells, + 

Bells, bells, bellsвБ†вАФ + 

In the clamor and the clangor of the bells! + 