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!
And all my days are trances And all my nightly dreams Are where thy dark eye glances And where thy footstep gleams In what ethereal dances By what eternal streams.
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping.