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Show LFor then'EALT1. SABBATH BELLS. BV J. H. MARTIKBlC. Pabbth balls' ?tjbth belli! What memories thrnng as yunr ninn!" twelUI How ihuahad'jwa glide forib Iiobo the "long, lorg o," Frcm ih dim, diitunt put, that mora distant still grows As tha yen,)-! iwifltj bear us, en Urns' silanl tlda. To tlial Diyitic ocsau, eternity wide. Sabbath belli! Sab' atb bell"! Howiwenly are paailng yuer silvery knrllr-1 Whila I lUt to juur sonnd, from ttta ili.dowy Coma5 the blut lli'g'ring voice of an echoing That l ag ago rang In mj childhood's bright That weropMsed with the birds, 'tnong the brooklets brook-lets and Qowvri. bb'tb bll-.' giibbmh !.!! Lika a regnimii louu'leth Clint ilow tm-illug knelt : Kr e'en wljil- I lUien, a nli.t.Ioo-y ihroei; With tiup elow and monrDl'ul, coiiim illsat And in that grim lieai, with It black wnviug plume, Llri a mniber't cold form, tu lie- IIUi'i fjlre.it bloom, Pabbntb btltel Subbitih balle! OfaL-eiiM pa-alr.Rjr.joun tliol aoumlliig imio U-Hs ! Tba luueral corte.- Iimh vaniahati from mgUt Ab tho niht glvotb wuy lo .l urera's fn li lit; Atd tbo hem's u happy Hill bsjiplsr gruw, But tbe dark ouasai hid la Uio 'loun, long Snbhath balln! SsblBlh bell-! Uowsnil, yci how wcet ar the memories (hat thrill; OfioDRi that were UDg-word of Iotb that were told :- Ofkl-iHM Imprinted by Hp thnt ar r Id; Of riuKlot, of hair bands waTinit ullea, XbW lying so still, lu the "loug, g ,." Fabbxth botln! Fabbatb bolhl Suit to-ny a-, of yore, your bo ft muic ewdl. Ibo brook itill li flowing, and Sixers el.il bloom Tbcngb frleuda dear and cbenabed pau into the louil, Vnil we, Wo, the living, as yer ou'rkly Will be numbered r Ion;;, la lb ' long, loog age." |