How it swells!

How it dwells

On the Future! how it tells

Of the Progress that impels

To the swinging and the ringing

Of the bells, bells, bells.

From the Brixtons, Claphams, Southwarks, Islingtons and Clerkenwells,

To the rhyming and the chiming of those bells!

Hear the Rate-Alarum bells—

Brazen bells!—