Sweet silence after bells! <br />deep in the enamour'd ear <br />soft incantation dwells. <br /> <br />Filling the rapt still sphere <br />a liquid crystal swims, <br />precarious yet clear. <br /> <br />Those metal quiring hymns <br />shaped ether so succinct: <br />a while, or it dislimns, <br /> <br />the silence, wanly prinkt <br />with forms of lingering notes, <br />inhabits, close. distinct; <br /> <br />and night, the angel, floats <br />on wings of blessing spread <br />o'er all the gather'd cotes <br /> <br />where meditation, wed <br />with love, in gold-lit cells, <br />absorbs the heaven that shed <br />sweet silence after bells.<br /><br />Christopher John Brennan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sweet-silence-after-bells/
