The Bells (Henry Lahee)

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• (Posted 2023-11-07)  CPDL #77031:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-07).   Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 496 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: The Bells
Composer: Henry Lahee
Lyricist: Edgar Allan Poe
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB, divisi
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: ca. 1870 John Blockley’s Part Music
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Original text and translations

English text

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 an 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, bells–
To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells!