The Bells

I hear the loud alarm bells What a dread their sound fortells Through the chilly air of night In a deaf and frantic fire With a desperate desire The flames are leaping higher What a world of solemn thought their monody compels tonight How we shiver with affright I hear them sledges with the bells How they clang and clash and roar What a horror they outpour In a mad expostulation With the deaf and frantic fire Leaping higher, higher, higher What a world of solemn thought their monody compels tonight How we shiver with affright At the melancholy menace of the tone he dance and yells To the peaen of the bells