...him as he springs, Circling the steeple with easy wings, Till across the dial his shade has passed, And the belfry edge is gained at last. 'Tis a bird...it well. When the tongue swings out to the midnight moon, When the sexton cheerly rings for noon, When the clock strikes clear at morning light, When the...

...easy wings, Till across the dial his shade has passed, And the belfry edge is gained at last ; Т is a bird I love, with its brooding note, And the trembling...it well. When the tongue swings out to the midnight moon, When the sexton cheerly rings for noon, When the clock strikes clear at morning light, When the...

...'T is a bird I love, with its brooding note, And the trembling throb in its mottled throat; There '- a human look in its swelling breast, And the gentle...it well. When the tongue swings out to the midnight moon — When the sexton cheerly rings for noon — When the clock strikes clear at morning light —...

...is a bird I love, with its brooding note, And the trembling throb in its mottled throat ; There 'sa R, the Barmecide, the good vizier, The poor man's...and e'en the bad, might say, Ordained that no man moon, When the sexton cheerly rings for noon, When the clock strikes clear at morning light, When the...

...— with its brooding note, And the trembling throb in its mottled throat ; There 'sa human look j in its swelling breast, And the gentle curve of its...well : When the tongue swings out to the midnight moon, — When the sexton cheerily rings for noon, — When the clock strikes clear | at morning light,...

...cadence of Willis's poem of " The Belfry Pigeon," the one simple and unconscious poem he ever wrote : " Whatever is rung on that noisy bell — Chime of the...knell— The dove in the belfry must hear it well. Whatever tale in the bell is heard, He broods on his folded feet unstirr'd, Or, rising half in his...