The Bells (Arthur Foote)

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• (Posted 2023-10-16)  CPDL #76382:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-10-16).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 401 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: The Bells
Composer: Arthur Foote
Lyricist: Edgar Allan Poe
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1901 C. C. Birchard and Co.
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Original text and translations

English text

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.