• From “The Lay of St. Aloy’s”
                LOUD and clear
    From the Saint Nicholas tower, on the listening ear,
                With solemn swell,
                The deep-toned bell
      Flings to the gale a funeral knell;
                And hark—at its sound,
                As a cunning old hound,
    When he opens, at once causes all the young whelps...