ANGELUS.

ANGELUS.

A deep bell that links the downsTo the drowsy air;Every loop of sound that swoons,Finds a circle fair,Whereon it doth rest and fade;Every stroke that dins is laidLike a node,Spinning out the quivering, fine,Vibrant tendrils of a vine:(Bim—bim—bim.)How they wreathe and run,Silvern as a filmy light,Filtered from the sun:The god of sound is out of sight,And the bell is like a cloud,Humming to the outer rim,Low and loud:(Bim—bim—bim.)Throwing down the tempered lull,Fragile, beautiful:Married drones and overtones,How we fancy them to swim,Spreading into shapes that shine,With the aura of the metals,Prisoned in the bell,Fulvous tinted as a shell,Dreamy, dim,Deep in amber hyaline:(Bim—bim—bim.)

A deep bell that links the downsTo the drowsy air;Every loop of sound that swoons,Finds a circle fair,Whereon it doth rest and fade;Every stroke that dins is laidLike a node,Spinning out the quivering, fine,Vibrant tendrils of a vine:(Bim—bim—bim.)How they wreathe and run,Silvern as a filmy light,Filtered from the sun:The god of sound is out of sight,And the bell is like a cloud,Humming to the outer rim,Low and loud:(Bim—bim—bim.)Throwing down the tempered lull,Fragile, beautiful:Married drones and overtones,How we fancy them to swim,Spreading into shapes that shine,With the aura of the metals,Prisoned in the bell,Fulvous tinted as a shell,Dreamy, dim,Deep in amber hyaline:(Bim—bim—bim.)

A deep bell that links the downsTo the drowsy air;Every loop of sound that swoons,Finds a circle fair,Whereon it doth rest and fade;Every stroke that dins is laidLike a node,Spinning out the quivering, fine,Vibrant tendrils of a vine:(Bim—bim—bim.)How they wreathe and run,Silvern as a filmy light,Filtered from the sun:The god of sound is out of sight,And the bell is like a cloud,Humming to the outer rim,Low and loud:(Bim—bim—bim.)Throwing down the tempered lull,Fragile, beautiful:Married drones and overtones,How we fancy them to swim,Spreading into shapes that shine,With the aura of the metals,Prisoned in the bell,Fulvous tinted as a shell,Dreamy, dim,Deep in amber hyaline:(Bim—bim—bim.)

A deep bell that links the downs

To the drowsy air;

Every loop of sound that swoons,

Finds a circle fair,

Whereon it doth rest and fade;

Every stroke that dins is laid

Like a node,

Spinning out the quivering, fine,

Vibrant tendrils of a vine:

(Bim—bim—bim.)

How they wreathe and run,

Silvern as a filmy light,

Filtered from the sun:

The god of sound is out of sight,

And the bell is like a cloud,

Humming to the outer rim,

Low and loud:

(Bim—bim—bim.)

Throwing down the tempered lull,

Fragile, beautiful:

Married drones and overtones,

How we fancy them to swim,

Spreading into shapes that shine,

With the aura of the metals,

Prisoned in the bell,

Fulvous tinted as a shell,

Dreamy, dim,

Deep in amber hyaline:

(Bim—bim—bim.)


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