StoryTitle("caps", "Christmas Chimes.") ?>
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PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(137, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sweetly through the night, comes the distant chime of bells,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Hark, and hear the story that their joyous pealing tells;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Like the song of angels, to us mortals given,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Comes the silver music, sounding through the star-crowned Heav'n. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "List! The happy music makes all nature sound,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Hear the answering hill-tops in echo sweet resound; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "'Tis of One they sing, One of lowly birth,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Who left a crown of glory, and came to sinful earth. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Now they tell the tale of shepherds from afar,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Watching through the dark night to see the glittering star; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Now they tell the story, of the wondrous love", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of Him, who lived and suffered, the Great King above. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Chime, ye bells of Heav'n, o'er the sleeping earth,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Let your tongues sing out the story of the heavenly birth; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Chime throughout the long night, nor cease your joyful lay, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Chime until the awaking of the glorious day.", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>