Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, OXFORD BELLS, by SISTER MARIS STELLA


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OXFORD BELLS, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Always the ghost of these will wake again
Last Line: The bell of christ's, tolling its hundred times.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Alice Gustava
Subject(s): Bells; Oxford, England


Always the ghost of these will wake again,
When other bells have clamored and are still.
Nowhere are bells that half so sweetly fill
The shaken tower, the drifting flaws of rain;
Of myriad sounds these only will remain.
Even the waters pouring all night under the mill
May be forgot, but on some distant hill,
When carillons die out across the plain,
There will come back some morning's purity
Of bells, peal after peal of silver song,
Magdalen's sweet tune, or the tumultuous chimes
Of all the bells on some high noon in glee
Reverberant; or, echoing deep and long,
The bell of Christ's, tolling its hundred times.





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