THE sobbing of the bells, the sudden death-news everywhere, <br /> The slumberers rouse, the rapport of the People, <br /> (Full well they know that message in the darkness, <br /> Full well return, respond within their breasts, their brains, the sad <br /> reverberations,) <br /> The passionate toll and clang--city to city, joining, sounding, <br /> passing, <br /> Those heart-beats of a Nation in the night.<br /><br />Walt Whitman<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-sobbing-of-the-bells/
