• [Time, 1571]
    the OLD mayor climbed the belfry tower,
      The ringers ran by two, by three;
    “Pull! if ye never pulled before;
      Good ringers, pull your best,” quoth he.
    “Play uppe, play uppe, O Boston bells!
    Ply all your changes, all your swells!
      Play uppe The Brides of Enderby!”

    Men say it was a “stolen tyde,”—
      The Lord...