Part 34 (2/2)

The fatal day came

Toll, toll, toll!

There was a sadness in the tone of the bell that touched every heart in Breslau The bell seemed human

Toll, toll, toll!

How melodious! how perfect! how beautiful! The very air seeo, and this bell would be the tongue of Breslau!

The oldto the bell The heavy clang was so melodious that it filled his heart with joy

”That is it! that is it; my heart, my life!” he said ”I know all thein holy days, and happy festivals, and joy eternal to Breslau”

Toll, toll, toll!

On passed the white-hairedstill to the call of the bell that summoned him to death

He bowed his head at the place of execution to meet the stroke just as the last tone of the bell melted upon the air His soul passed as on

”Ay, of all bells that ever He cast, is this the crown, The bell of Church St Magdalen At Breslau in the town

It was, from that time forward, Baptized the Sinner's Bell; Whether it still is called so, Is more than I can tell”

”There is a sadness in the bells of the Rhine,” continued Mr Beal, ”as they ring fro under the ruins of the castles on the hills The lords of the Rhine that once heard theone forever The vineyards creep up the hills on the light trellises, and the sun and the earth, as it were, fill the grapes ine The woods are as green as of old The rafts go drifting down the light waves as on feet of air But the river of history is changed, and one feels the spirit of the change with deep sadness as one listens to the bells”

THE LIGHTS HAVE GONE OUT IN THE CASTLE

I

The boathtly the zither As they drift 'neath the hillsides of green, But gone froravine

Play lightly, play lightly, O boathts have gone out in the castle, The lights have gone out in the hall

And the Rhine waters silently flow, The old bells ring solehtly, O boathtly and low

II

Awake the old runes on the zither, O boatreen ruins of ivy, And shtly, O boathts have gone out in the castle, The lights have gone out in the hall

And the Rhine waters silently flow, The old bells ring solehtly, O boathtly and low

[Illustration: ABOVE THE TOWN]

III