 In the silence of the night, How we shiver with affright At the melancholy menace of their tone! For every sound that floats From the rust within their throats Is a groan. And the people — ah, the people — They that dwell up in the steeple, All alone,...  The National Magazine - Page 74edited by - 1853Full view - About this book
 | John Swett - 1867 - 252 pages
...the bells, iron bells 1 In the silence of the night, how we shiver with affright At Jlie melancholy menace of their tone ! For every sound that floats...— They are neither man nor woman; they are neither brute nor human, They are ghouls : And their king it is who tolls ; and he rolls, rolls, rolls, rolls,... | |
 | Andrew Comstock, Philip Lawrence - 1808 - 596 pages
...thought their monody compels! In the silence of the night, How we shiver with affright At the melancholy menace of their tone ! For every sound that floats...They are neither man nor woman — They are neither brute nor human — They are Ghouls : And their king it is who tolls ; And he rolls, rolls, rolls,... | |
 | John Swett - 1868 - 246 pages
...of the bells, iron bells! In the silence of the night, how we shiver with affright At the melancholy menace of their tone ! For every sound that floats...the rust within their throats Is a groan. And the people—ah, the people; they that dwell up in the steeple All alone, And who tolling, tolling, tolling,... | |
 | M. S. Mitchell - 1869 - 416 pages
...thought, their monody compels! In the silence of the night, How we shiver with affright At the melancholy menace of their tone! For every sound that floats...They are neither man nor woman — They are neither brute nor human — They are Ghouls : And their king it is who tolls; And he rolls, rolls, rolls, Rolls... | |
 | Charles A. Wiley - 1869 - 456 pages
...thought their monody compels ! In the silence of the night, how we shiver with affright At the melancholy menace of their tone ! For every sound that floats...stone — They are neither man nor woman — they arc neither brute nor human, They are ghouls : And their king it is who tolls ; and he rolls, rolls,... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1869 - 596 pages
...thought their monody compels ! In the silence of the night, How we shiver with affright At the melancholy menace of their tone ! For every sound that floats...They that dwell up in the steeple, All alone, And who toiling, toiling, toiling, In that muffled monotone, Feel a glory in so rolling On the human heart... | |
 | Alexander Kennedy Isbister - 1870 - 104 pages
...thought their monody compels ! In the silence of the night, How we shiver with affright At the melancholy menace of their tone ! For every sound that floats,...They are neither man nor woman — They are neither brute nor human — They are Ghouls : And their king it is who tolls ; And he rolls, rolls, rolls,... | |
 | Josiah Rhinehart Sypher - 1870 - 396 pages
...thought their monody compels! In the silence of the night, How we shiver with affright At the melancholy menace of their tone ! For every sound that floats...They are neither man nor woman — They are neither brute nor human — They are Ghouls : And their king it is who tolls; And he rolls, rolls, rolls, Bolls,... | |
 | 1880 - 996 pages
...Such an image is that of the beings who lend their menace to the tone of the funeral bells : — " The people— ah, the people — They that dwell up...stone,— They are neither man nor woman, They are neither brute nor human, They are Ghouls." In the same remarkable fantasia the* themselves become human, and... | |
 | M. S. Mitchell - 1870 - 416 pages
...thought their monody compels! In the silence of the night, How we shiver with afl'right At the melancholy menace of their tone! For every sound that floats...alone, And who, tolling, tolling, tolling, In that muflled monotone, Feel a glory in so rolling On the human heart a stone — They are neither man nor... | |
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