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The Sobbing of the Bells.

Part of the cluster SONGS OF PARTING.

THE SOBBING OF THE BELLS.

(Midnight, Sept. 19-20, 1881.)

THE sobbing of the bells, the sudden death-news everywhere, The slumberers rouse, the rapport of the People, (Full well they know that message in the darkness, Full well return, respond within their breasts, their brains, the sad  
 reverberations,) The passionate toll and clang—city to city, joining, sounding,  
 passing, Those heart-beats of a Nation in the night.

Part of the cluster SONGS OF PARTING.

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