#16 Wednesday Words: Happy Holidays 2024

Happy holidays, dear readers! Wednesday Words is here to wish us all a better-in-every-way holiday season.

Join me in ringing in some holiday cheer as you read the following first stanza of Edgar Allan Poe’s poem celebrating bells.

The Bells

Hear the sledges with the bells—

Silver bells!
What a world of merriment their melody foretells!
How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,
in the icy air of night!
While the stars that oversprinkle
All the heavens, seem to twinkle
With a crystalline delight;
Keeping time, time, time,
In a sort of Runic rhyme,
To the tintinabulation that so musically wells
From the bells, bells, bells, bells,
Bells, bells, bells—
From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.

The Bells by Edgar Allan Poe – Poems | Academy of American Poets

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Thanks for reading!

Best wishes for peace, health, and joy this season and in the coming year from your writer on the wing,

Charlene

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