Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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Those evening bells! those evening bells!

How many a tale their music tells

Of youth and home, and that sweet time

When last I heard their soothing chime!

Those Evening Bells.

Oft in the stilly night,

Ere slumber's chain has bound me,

Fond memory brings the light

Of other days around me;

The smiles, the tears,