Hymnal: Fillmore's Harp of Zion
Date: 1867
Compiler: A D Fillmore
Publisher/Printer: R W Carroll & Co
First Line: Chime again chime again beautiful bells
Topic: <no topic given>
Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>
Composer: H Bishop
Tune: Chime Again
Hymn Number: <no hymn number given>
Page Number: 028, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsChime again, chime again, beautiful bells.
Now your soft melody floats on the wind;
Bursting at intervals over the sails,
Leaving a train of reflection behind.
Answering echoes that gather around,
Call from the heart every wish that is dear.
Voices of friendship still ring in each sound,
Bidding me welcome that chime with a tear.
Chime again, chime again, beautiful bells,
Linger awhile o'er the deep, dusky bay;
Fainter and fainter your melody swells,
Fast fades the land, and your sounds die away.
The cold lamp of night now silvers the deep;
On the sails the bark from this happy shore,
Lonely I'm left on the waters to weep,
Chimes of those beautiful bells to deplore.