Alliance Music Pub The Bells - Bisbee - SSA

Lyrics: Edgar Allan Poe
Composer: Wayne Bisbee
Format: Choral Octavo
Voicing: SSA with piano and handbells

Text: Part I of The Bells by Edgar Allan Poe

Hear the sledges with the bells -
Silver bells!
What a world of merriment their melody foretells!
How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,
In the icy air of night!
While the stars that oversprinkle
All the heavens seem to twinkle
With a crystalline delight;
Keeping time, time, time,
In a sort of Runic rhyme,
To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells
From the bells, bells, bells, bells,
Bells, bells, bells -
From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells