Those Evening Bells

Thomas Moore 1779 – 1852

Those evening bells! those evening bells!
How many a tale their music tells,
Of youth and home and that sweet time
When last I heard their soothing chime.

Those joyous hours are past away:
And many a heart, that then was gay,
Within the tomb now darkly dwells,
And hears no more those evening bells.

And so ‘t will be when I am gone;
That tuneful peal will still ring on,
While other bards shall walk these dells,
And sing your praise, sweet evening bells!