THE BELLS<br> I. <b>Hear the sledges with the bells--<br> Silver bells!<br> What a world of merriment their melody foretells!<br> How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,<br> In the icy air of night!<br> While the stars, that oversprinkle<br> All the heavens, seem to twinkle<br> With a crystalline delight;<br> Keeping time, time, time,<br> In a sort if Runic rhyme,<br> To the tintinabulation that so musically wells<br> From the bells, bells, bells, bells,<br> Bells, bells, bells,--<br> From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.</b><br> =========================================================================== CATHOLIC HYMN <b>At morn--at noon--at twilight dim--<br> Maria! thou hast heard my hymn!<br> In joy and woe--in good and ill--<br> Mother of God, be with me still!<br> When the hours flew brightly by,<br> And not a cloud obscured the sky,<br> My soul, lest it should truant be,<br> Thy grace did guide to thine and thee;<br> Now, when storms of Fate o'ercast<br> Darkly my Present and my Past,<br> Let my Future radiant shine<br> With sweet hopes of thee and thine!</b><br>