 In the silence of the night How we shiver with affright At the melancholy menace of their tone! For every sound that floats From the rust within their throats Is a groan. And the people — ah, the people, They that dwell up in the steeple, All alone,...  The National Magazine - Page 74edited by - 1853Full view - About this book
 | James Fleming - 1866 - 382 pages
...melancholy menace of their tone ! For every sound that floats From the rust within their throats Is a groan. And the people — ah, the people — They that dwell...— They are neither brute nor human — They are Ghouls : And their king it is who tolls ; And he rolls, rolls, rolls, Rolls A paean from the bells... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.) - 1866 - 488 pages
...home thoughtfully, musing upon the probability of invisible hands pulling at his bell-rope — those " People — ah, the people. They that dwell up in the...tolling, In that muffled monotone, Feel a glory in BO rolling On the human heart a stone ; They are neither man nor woman, They are neither brute nor... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - Readers (Secondary) - 1866 - 568 pages
...melancholy menace of their tone 1 For every sound that floats From the rust within their throats Is a groan. And the people — ah ! the people — They that dwell...alone, And who tolling, tolling, tolling, In that muflied "monotone, Feel a glory in so rolling On the human heart a stone — They are neither man nor... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Elocution - 1866 - 618 pages
...mel'ancholy menace of their tone ! For every sound that floats From the rust within their throats Is a groan. And the people — ah, the people — They that dwell...alone, And who tolling, tolling, tolling, In that muilled monotone, Feel a glory in so rolling On the human heart a stone — They are neither man nor... | |
 | Nathaniel Kirk Richardson - Readers - 1866 - 204 pages
...•In that mumed_monotone, Feel a glory in so rolling All alone, And who tolling, tolling, tolling, On the human heart a stone— They are neither man...woman— They are neither brute nor human— They are Ghouls: And their king it is who tolls; And he rolls, rolls, rolls, rolls, With the psean of the bells... | |
 | Frances Martin - English poetry - 1866 - 506 pages
...melancholy menace of their tone ! For every sound that floats From the rust within their throats Is a groan. And the people — ah, the people — They that dwell up in the steeple, All alone, o And who, tolling, tolling, tolling, In that muffled monotone, Feel a glory in so rolling On the human... | |
 | John Dudley Philbrick - Readers - 1868 - 636 pages
...menace of their tone ! For every sound that floats From the rust within their throats, Is a groan. And the people — ah, the people — They that dwell...— They are neither brute nor human — They are Ghouls ; And their king it is who tolls ; And he rolls, rolls, rolls, • Rolls A paean from the bells... | |
 | Book - English literature - 1868 - 168 pages
...melancholy menace of their tone ! For every sound that floats From the rust within their throats Is a groan. And the people — ah, the people — They that dwell...— They are neither brute nor human — They are Ghouls : And their king it is who tolls ;. And he rolls, rolls, rolls, Rolls A paean from the bells... | |
 | Andrew Comstock, Philip Lawrence - Elocution - 1808 - 596 pages
...melancholy menace of their tone ! For every sound that floats From the rust within their throats Is a groan. And the people — ah, the people — They that dwell...— They are neither brute nor human — They are Ghouls : And their king it is who tolls ; And he rolls, rolls, rolls, rolls, A paean from the bells... | |
 | John Swett - Elocution - 1867 - 252 pages
...melancholy menace of their tone ! For every sound that floats from the rust within their throats Is a groan. And the people — ah. the people ; they that dwell...woman; they are neither brute nor human, They are ghouls : And their king it is who tolls ; and he rolls, rolls, rolls, rolls, A paean from the bells... | |
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