HE BUYS A BELL.
LIKES " SWEET SOUND."
KINGSTON (Ontario). Wallace Haveloek Robb has bought a bell for the sole purpose of making "a sweet sound over the countryside at eventide." The bell cost him £200. 110 admits, and lias not the slightest utilitarian purpose. "This is the first time on record where anyone has bought a ceremonial bell just as a whim," Mr. Robb said. "Hardly anyone but a poet would have thought of such a thing. "I shall ring it," lie went on, "when I am in the mood for it. Perhaps at twilight, in summer, the people near my home (Abbey Dawn) may hear a pastoral sound like beauty enchanting them." Cast in England, the bell weighs nearly a ton in its frame. Mr. Robb has given it the name "Gitchi Nagamo," a phrase from the Algonquin tongue meaning "a beautiful song." Impressed upon the bell are two lines which Robb wrote : — 1 give my soul to the silent dawn, And it goes where the song of the birds has gone.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 243, 13 October 1936, Page 19
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173HE BUYS A BELL. Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 243, 13 October 1936, Page 19
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