Will our cousins all go frantic from Pacific to Atlantic, or condemn as childish antic
Irving's dancing, and his gasping, and his yells!
There's a certain admiration which the strange impersonation
Still compels,
E'en from those who can't see beauty in The Bells—
In the play that Mr. Lewis calls The Bells!
Wondrous Bells!
You first made Henry famous, so the stage historian tells.
Will the scene be now repeated which in London always greeted
His performance of Mathias in The Bells?