VILLAGE BELLS.

———'To the heart the solemn sweetness steals,

Like the heart's voice, unfelt by none who feels

That God is love, that man is living dust;

Unfelt by none, whom ties of brotherhood

Link to his kind; by none who puts his trust

In naught of earth that hath surviv'd the flood,

Save those mute charities, by which the good

Strengthen poor worms, and serve their Maker best.

Village Patriarch.