Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1896 — THE MAGIC BELL [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE MAGIC BELL

HE old 7«*r U dead, and hoaryhaired Time, High In the belfry U tolling his knell From the phantom rim of a magic bel!. , And the world la swayed by Its mystic chime. For earth Is the ponderous tongue that swings In the tower of Time. The cathedral dim Is the universe, and the bell's huge rim Is the ether blue as It rings and rings.

The chimes are the passions that sway men s That°tempt and Inspire them. The thought. On Tear's ere from the earth dross freed. In one mighty vibration upward rolls. And hushed are the voices around the Throne. As the Great Creator receives HU own.