Too much horrified to speak,
They can only shriek, shriek, out of tune,
In a clamorous appealing to the mercy of the fire,
In a mad expostulation with the deaf and frantic fire
Leaping higher, higher, higher, with a desperate desire,
And a resolute endeavor now--now to sit or never,
By the side of the pale-faced moon. Oh, the bells, bells, bells!
What a tale their terror tells of despair!
How they clang, and clash, and roar! What a horror they outpour
On the bosom of the palpitating air!
Yet the air, it fully knows,
By the twanging and the clanging,
How the danger ebbs and flows; yet the ear distinctly tells
In the jangling and the wrangling,
How the danger sinks and swells,
By the sinking or the swelling in the anger of the bells--of the
bells--
Of the bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells--
In the clamor and the clangor of the bells!

Hear the tolling of the bells--iron bells!
What a world of solemn thought their monody compels!
In the silence of the night,
How we shiver with affright
At the melancholy menace of their tone!
For every sound that floats
From the rust within their throats is a groan.
And the people--ah, the people--
They that dwell up in the steeple, all alone!
And who tolling, tolling, tolling, in that muffled monotone,
Feel a glory in so rolling on the human heart a stone--
They are neither man nor woman--
They are neither brute nor human--they are Ghouls:
And their king it is who tolls;
And he rolls, rolls, rolls, rolls a paean from the bells!
And his merry bosom swells with the paean of the bells!
And he dances and he yells;
Keeping time, time, time, in a sort of Runic rhyme,
To the paean of the bells--of the bells;
Keeping time, time, time, in a sort of Runic rhyme,
To the throbbing of the bells--of the bells, bells, bells,
To the sobbing of the bells; keeping time, time, time,
As he knells, knells, knells, in a happy Runic rhyme,
To the rolling of the bells--of the bells, bells, bells--
To the tolling of the bells, of the bells, bells, bells, bells,
bells, bells, bells--
To the moaning and the groaning of the bells.

EDGAR A. POE.

APPLICATION OF THE ANALYTIC-SYNTHETIC METHOD.

This method can be applied in several different ways according to the