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From the fir the faggot take,

Keep it, heap it hard and dry,

That the gathered flame may break

Through the furnace, wroth and high.

When the copper within

Seethes and simmers—the tin

Pour quick, that the fluid that feeds the Bell

May flow in the right course glib and well.

Deep hid within this nether cell,

What force with Fire is molding thus

In yonder airy tower shall dwell,

And witness wide and far of us!

It shall, in later days, unfailing,

Rouse many an ear to rapt emotion;

Its solemn voice with Sorrow wailing,

Or choral chiming to Devotion.

Whatever Fate to Man may bring,

Whatever weal or woe befall,

That metal tongue shall backward ring

The warning moral drawn from all.