The Sobbing of the Bells
Ernst Bacon, Walt Whitman
The sobbing of the bells, the sudden death-news everywhere
The slumberers rouse, the rapport of the People
(Full well they know that message in the darkness
Full well return, respond within their breasts, their brains, the
Sad reverberations,)
The passionate toll and clang–city to city, joining, sounding, passing
Those heart-beats of a Nation in the night