The Bells of Fletching. Anonymous. Fletching. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. 1876-79. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes. England: Vols. I-IV

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79.

Fletching

The Bells of Fletching

Anonymous


THE FLETCHING bells, with silver chime,
Come softened o’er the distant shore;
Though I have heard them many a time,
They never sang so sweet before.

A silence rests upon the hill,	5
A listening awe pervades the air;
The very flowers are shut and still,
And bowed as if in prayer.