Curfew Poem
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- 1st Line
- Solemnly, Mournfully
- 2nd line
- Dealing it's dole
- 3rd Line
- The Curfew Bell
- 4th line
- is beginning to toll
- 5th Line
- cover the embers
- 6th line
- and put out the light
- 7th line
- toil comes with the morning
- 8th line
- and rest with the night.
- 9th line
- Dark are the windows
- 10th line
- and quenched is the fire
- 11th line
- sound fades into silence
- 12th line
- all footsteps retire
- 13th line
- no voice in the chambers
- 14th line
- no sound in the hall
- 15th line
- sleep and oblivion
- 16th line
- reign over all!
- 17th line
- The book is completed
- 18th line
- and closed like the day
- 19th line
- and the had that has written it
- 20th line
- lays it away
- 21st line
- dim grow it's fancies
- 22nd line
- forgotten they lie
- 23rd line
- like coal in the ashes
- 24th line
- they darken and die
- 25th line
- song sinks into silence
- 26th line
- the story is told
- 27th line
- the windows are darkened
- 28th line
- the hearth stone is cold
- 29th line
- darker and darker
- 30th line
- the black shadows fall
- 31st line
- sleep and oblivion
- 32nd line
- reign over all