Historic Sheet Music Collection
Title
Document Type
Score
Publication Date
1857
Lyrics
Solemnly, mournfully, Dealing its dole,
The Curfew Bell Is beginning to tole.
Cover the embers, And put out the light;
Toil comes with morning, And rest with the night.
Dark grow the windows And quench'd is the fire,
Sound fades into silence - All footsteps retire; No voice in the chambers, No sound in the hall! Sleep and oblivion Reign over all.
The Curfew Bell Is beginning to toll,
The Curfew Bell Is beginning to toll.
The book is completed, and closed like the day, And the hand that has written it lays it away; Dim grow its fancies, forgotten they lie,
Like coals in the ashes, they darken and die. The windows are darken'd, the hearth-stone is cold,
Song sinks into silence - The story is told. Darker and darker, the black shadows fall;
Sleep and oblivion reign over all.
Solemnly, mournfully, dealing its dole,
The Curfew Bell is beginning to toll.
Recommended Citation
Solemnly, mournfully, Dealing its dole, The Curfew Bell Is beginning to tole. Cover the embers, And put out the light; Toil comes with morning, And rest with the night. Dark grow the windows And quench'd is the fire, Sound fades into silence - All footsteps retire; No voice in the chambers, No sound in the hall! Sleep and oblivion Reign over all. Solemnly mournfully, Dealing its dole, The Curfew Bell Is beginning to toll, The Curfew Bell Is beginning to toll. The book is completed, and closed like the day, And the hand that has written it lays it away; Dim grow its fancies, forgotten they lie, Like coals in the ashes, they darken and die. The windows are darken'd, the hearth-stone is cold, Song sinks into silence - The story is told. Darker and darker, the black shadows fall; Sleep and oblivion reign over all. Solemnly, mournfully, dealing its dole, The Curfew Bell is beginning to toll.
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Comments
Estimated date, publisher operated at this address between 1844 and 1857 words by H.W. Longfellow Music by John Blockley Boston: Published by Oliver Ditson, 115 Washington St., S.T. Gordon, New York, J.E. Gould, Phila., D.A. Trux, Cinn., G.C. Clapp & Co., Boston J.H. Buffords, Lith.
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