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Title: The Angelus Author: Bret Harte [More Titles by Harte] (HEARD AT THE MISSION DOLORES, 1868) Bells of the Past, whose long-forgotten music I hear your call, and see the sun descending Within the circle of your incantation Borne on the swell of your long waves receding, Before me rise the dome-shaped Mission towers, Once more I see Portala's cross uplifting O solemn bells! whose consecrated masses Your voices break and falter in the darkness,-- [The end] GO TO TOP OF SCREEN |