That tocsin of the soul--the dinner-bell.'

But Schiller's great ringing poem is superbly _campanologistic_; so is

Southey's 'Inch Cope Bell,' and to this division belong all tollings,

fire-alarms, and knells in verse whatever.

The following lyric is, however, far above either, as it ambitiously

embraces the whole subject, and therefore, so far as comprehensiveness

is concerned, must of course take precedence even of Tennyson's 'Ring

Out!'

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