POET BUYS A BELL
Wallace Havelock Robb, a Kingston, Ontario, poet, has bought a bell—a big bell with the tone of D-natural—for the sole purpose of making “ a sweet sound over the countryside at eventide.’’ The bell, Mr Robb admits, cost him 1000 dollars (“I have denied myself things for years to get it”) and has not the slightest utilitarian purpose. “This is the first lime on record where anyone has bought a ceremonial bell just as a whim.” he said. “ Hardly anyone but a poet would have thought of such a thing. I shall ring it when lam in the mood for it. Perhaps at twilight, in summer, the people near my home may hear a pastoral sound like beauty enchanting them." The bell, cast in England, weighs nearly a ton in its frame
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23044, 21 November 1936, Page 21
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