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Point/ Counterpoint: The Lowell House Bells

What a tale their terror tells

Of Despair!

How they clang, and clash, and roar!

What a horror they outpour

On the bosom of the palpitating air!

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…And the people - ah, the people

They that dwell up in the steeple,

All Alone

And who, tolling, tolling, tolling,

In that muffled monotone,

Feel a glory in so rolling

On the human heart a stone”

—Edgar Allan Poe, “The Bells”

—Staff writer Keerthi Reddy can be reached at kreddy@college.harvard.edu.

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