Twinkle



            Hear the sledges with the bells--
                    Silver bells!
What a world of merriment their melody foretells!
        How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,
                In the icy air of night!
        While the stars that oversprinkle
        All the heavens, seem to twinkle
                With a crystalline delight;
            Keeping time, time, time,
            In a sort of Runic rhyme,
To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells
    From the bells, bells, bells, bells,
                Bells, bells, bells,--
    From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.

-Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849),
The Bells







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