Hear the mellow wedding bells —

                Golden bells!

What a world of happiness their harmony foretells!

        Through the balmy air of night

        How they ring out their delight! —

        From the molten-golden notes

                And all in tune,

        What a liquid ditty floats

        To the turtle-dove that listens while she gloats

                On the moon!

        Oh, from out the sounding cells

What a gush of euphony voluminously wells!

                How it swells!

                How it dwells

        On the Future! – how it tells

        Of the rapture that impels

        To the swinging and the ringing

                Of the bells, bells, bells! —

        Of the bells, bells, bells, bells,

                Bells, bells, bells —

        To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells!