“Hear the mellow wedding bells
Golden bells!
What a world of happiness their harmony foretells
Through the balmy air of night
How they ring out their delight!”

—  Edgar Allan Poe , book The Bells

"The Bells", st. 2 (1849).

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American author, poet, editor and literary critic 1809–1849

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