Oh, that tintinabulation’s worse than all the street boy’s yells.
Oh, the bells, bells, bells,
The jingling and the jangling of the bells!
Hear the Ritualistic bells,
Ceaseless bells!
What a discord most distracting in their noisy clappers dwells.
Ere has come the morning light,
I awaken in a fright
At their dong-dong-dong,
For ’tis matins all days long,