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 DING DONG

the world grows old by the chimney-side,

Then forth to the youngling nooks I glide,

Where over the water and over the land

The bells are booming on either hand.

Now up they go ding, then down again dong,

And awhile they ring to the same old song,

For the metal goes round at a single bound,

A-cutting the fields with its measured sound,

While the tired tongue falls with a lengthened boom

As solemn and loud as the crack of doom.

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