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To: Peach; All
The ringing of the bells made me think of a poem by Wordsworth. He was walking in the English countryside one day, heard churchbells ringing from the local Abbey in the distance, and had what can only be described as an Epiphany.

Here's a portion...............

Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey (a poem by William Wordsworth)

......For I have learned
To look on nature, not as in the hour
Of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes
The still sad music of humanity,
Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power
To chasten and subdue. And I have felt
A presence that disturbs me with the joy
Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime
Of something far more deeply interfused,
Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns,
And the round ocean and the living air, 
And the blue sky, and in the mind of man:
A motion and a spirit, that impels 
All thinking things, all objects of all thought,
And rolls through all things. Therefore am I still
A lover of the meadows and the woods,
And mountains; and of all that we behold
From this green earth; of all the mighty world
Of eye, and ear both what they half create,
And what perceive; well pleased to recognize
In nature and the language of the sense
The anchor of my purest thoughts, the nurse, 
The guide, the guardian of my heart, and soul
Of all my moral being. 

http://www.love-poems.me.uk/wordsworth_tintern_abbey.htm

2,803 posted on 06/11/2004 10:21:47 AM PDT by DoctorMichael (The Fourth Estate is a Fifth Column!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: DoctorMichael

How nice!

Thank you for posting those words. Lovely.


2,819 posted on 06/11/2004 10:23:12 AM PDT by Peach (The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
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To: DoctorMichael
After the tolling of the tenor bell, they began ringing a peal - I believe they have a ring of ten bells, and there is a change-ringing society at the Cathedral. If they ring a full peal, they will be busy for hours.

Change Ringing in North America

2,894 posted on 06/11/2004 10:34:11 AM PDT by AnAmericanMother (. . . Ministrix of Venery (recess appointment), TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary . . .)
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