The Bells + 

I + 

Hear the sledges with the bellsвБ†вАФ + 

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, bellsвБ†вАФ + 

From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells. + 

II + 

Hear the mellow wedding bells + 

Golden bells! + 

What a world of happiness their harmony foretells! + 

Through the balmy air of night + 

How they ring out their delight! + 

From the molten golden-notes, + 

And all in tune, + 

What a liquid ditty floats + 

To the turtle-dove that listens, while she gloats + 

On the moon! + 

Oh, from out the sounding cells, + 

What a gush of euphony voluminously wells! + 

How it swells! + 

How it dwells + 

On the future! how it tells + 

Of the rapture that impels + 

To the swinging and the ringing + 

Of the bells, bells, bells, + 

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

Bells, bells, bellsвБ†вАФ + 

To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells! + 

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! + 

IV + 

Hear the tolling of the bellsвБ†вАФ + 

Iron bells! + 

What a world of solemn thought their monody compels! + 

In the silence of the night, + 

How we shiver with affright + 

At the melancholy meaning of their tone! + 

For every sound that floats + 

From the rust within their throats + 

Is a groan. + 

And the peopleвБ†вАФah, the peopleвБ†вАФ + 

They that dwell up in the steeple, + 

All alone, + 

And who, tolling, tolling, tolling, + 

In that muffled monotone, + 

Feel a glory in so rolling + 

On the human heart a stoneвБ†вАФ + 

They are neither man nor womanвБ†вАФ + 

They are neither brute nor humanвБ†вАФ + 

They are Ghouls: + 

And their king it is who tolls; + 

And he rolls, rolls, rolls, + 

Rolls + 

A paean from the bells! + 

And his merry bosom swells + 

With the paean of the bells! + 

And he dances, and he yells; + 

Keeping time, time, time, + 

In a sort of Runic rhyme, + 

To the paean of the bellsвБ†вАФ + 

Of the bells: + 

Keeping time, time, time, + 

In a sort of Runic rhyme, + 

To the throbbing of the bellsвБ†вАФ + 

Of the bells, bells, bellsвБ†вАФ + 

To the sobbing of the bells; + 

Keeping time, time, time, + 

As he knells, knells, knells, + 

In a happy Runic rhyme, + 

To the rolling of the bellsвБ†вАФ + 

Of the bells, bells, bellsвБ†вАФ + 

To the tolling of the bells, + 

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

Bells, bells, bellsвБ†вАФ + 

To the moaning and the groaning of the bells. + 