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Chimes

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Brief, on a flying night,     From the shaken tower,     A flock of bells take flight,     And go with the hour.     Like birds from the cote to the gales,     Abrupt - O hark!     A fleet of bells set sails,     And go to the dark.     Sudden the cold airs swing.     Alone, aloud,     A verse of bells takes wing     And flies with the cloud.

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"The Text is taken from Percy's Reliques (1765), vol. i. p. 71, 'given from two MS. copies, transmitted from Scotland.' Herd had a very similar bal"

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