IT is done ! Clang of bell and roar of gun Send the tidings up and down. How the belfries rock and reel ! How the great guns, peal on peal, Fling the joy from town to town ! Ring, 0 bells ! Every stroke exulting tells Of the burial hour of crime. National Lyrics - Page 103by John Greenleaf Whittier - 1866 - 104 pagesFull view - About this book
| American Academy of Arts and Sciences - Humanities - 1893 - 482 pages
...Poetical Worki, Vol. III. p. 217. t Poetical Works, Vol. III. p. 245. § Ibid., p. 264. " It is done I Clang of bell and roar of gun Send the tidings up...guns, peal on peal, Fling the joy from town to town ! " Did we dare, In our agony of prayer, Ask for more than He has done? When was ever His right hand... | |
| Education - 1864 - 272 pages
...ring for the Constitutional Amendment Abolishing Slavery in the United States. BY JOHN O. \VHIITIER. It is done ! Clang of bell and roar of gun Send the tidings up and down. How the helfries rock and reel, How the great guns peal and peal, Fling the joy from town to town ! King 0... | |
| Robert Blackley Drummond - Slavery - 1865 - 18 pages
...erewhile had rung the death-knell of Freedom (she was not dead, but slept), now hail her resurrection? " It is done ! Clang of bell and roar of gun Send the...guns, peal on peal, Fling the joy from town to town. King, 0 bells ! Every stroke exulting tells Of the burial- hour of crime. Loud and long that all may... | |
| Education - 1865 - 594 pages
...for the Constitutional Amendment abolishing Slavery In the United State«. ВТ JOHN 0. WH ITT 1 Kit. IT is done ! Clang of bell and roar of gun Send the...the belfries rock and reel, How the great guns peal and peal, Fung the joy from town to town ! Ring, 0 bells ! Every stroke exulting tells Of the burial-hour... | |
| Joshua Rhodes Balme - United States - 1866 - 314 pages
...tragedy, or only spectators in this fearful contest, can take up the song of Whittier: — LAUS DEO ! It is done Clang of bell and roar of gun Send the...Fling the joy from town to town ' Ring, O bells! Every tongue exulting tells Of the burial hour of crime. Loud and long that all may hear, Ring for every... | |
| Phineas Camp Headley - Massachusetts - 1866 - 948 pages
...LAOS DEO. HJUBING THE BELLS R1NO FOB THE CONSTITUTIONAI. AMEBDJCENT ABOLUBDC SLAVERY I!f THE CE1TEO STATES. It is done \ Clang of bell, and roar of gun,...peal, Fling the joy from town to town \ Ring, O bells I — Every stroke exulting tells Of the burial-hour of crime, — Load and long, that all may hear... | |
| Society of Friends - 1867 - 364 pages
...thrill ran through every heart. " The reading of the introduction over, the poem commenced : — " It is done ! Clang of bell and roar of gun, Send the tidings up and down. " "We could see the eyes moisten as the reading proceeded, every stanza producing a deeper and deeper... | |
| John Swett - Elocution - 1868 - 246 pages
...WHITTIER. [On hearing the bells ring for the Constitutional Amendment abolishing slavery la the United States.] IT is done! Clang of bell and roar of gun...the belfries rock and reel, How the great guns, peal and peal, Fling the joy from town to townl Ring, O bells! Every stroke exulting tells Of the burial-hour... | |
| M. S. Mitchell - Elocution - 1869 - 416 pages
...Whittier. OS HEARING THE BELLS RING ON THE PASSAGE OP THE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT ABOLISHING SLAVERY. It is done ! Clang of bell and roar of gun Send the...peal on peal, Fling the joy from town to town ! Ring, 0 bells I Every stroke exulting tells Of the burial hour of crime. Loud and long, that all may hear,... | |
| Philip Lawrence - English language - 1870 - 422 pages
...LAUS DEO! On hearing the bells ring on the passage of the Constitutional Amendment abolishing Slavery. IT is done! Clang of bell and roar of gun Send the...peal, Fling the joy from town to town! Ring, O bells I Every stroke exulting tells Of the burial hour of crime. Loud and long, that all may hear, Ring for... | |
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