THROUGH Lucerne the chimes rang clearly,
Echoing long and clanging deep,
O'er the city wrapt in silence,
Resting in untroubled sleep.
As they died, the trusty watcher,
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Like an echo to the bell,
Uttered in a priestly whisper
His unceasing, "All is well."
On the lake the darkling moonlight
Came and went, as did the chimes,
Brightening up the solemn darkness,
As the weird belfry's rhymes.
Now and then a scudding mist-cloud
Hid the crescent Empress' light;
Then they fled and left her glory,
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