<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=535761" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Bell From Europe</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The tower bell in the Tenth Street Church<br>Rang out nostalgia for the refugee<br>Who knew the source of bells by sound.<br>We liked it, but in ignorance.<br>One meets authorities on bells infrequently.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Europe alone made bells with such a tone,<br>Herr Mannheim said. The bell<br>Struck midnight, and it shook the room.<br>He had heard bells in Leipzig, Chartres, Berlin,<br>Paris, Vienna, Brussels, Rome.<br>He was a white-faced man with sad enormous eyes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Reader, for me that bell marked nights<br>Of restless tossing in this narrow bed,<br>The quarrels, the slamming of a door,<br>The kind words, friends for drinks, the books we read,<br>Breakfasts with streets in rain.<br>It rang from europe all the time.<br>That was what Mannheim said.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is good to know, now that the bell strikes noon.<br>In this day's sun, the hedges are Episcopalian<br>As noon is marked by the twelve iron beats.<br>The rector moves ruminantly among the gravestones,<br>And the sound of a dead Europe hangs in the streets.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Weldon+Kees">Weldon Kees</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=535761" data-title="The Bell From Europe de Weldon Kees" data-description="The tower bell in the Tenth Street Church Rang out nostalgia for the refugee Who knew the source of bells by sound. We liked it, but in ignorance. One meets authorities on bells infrequently. Europe alone made bells with such a tone, Herr Mannhei..."></div> </div> </div>

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