The Bell-Man [Along the dark and silent night]

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Title:     The Bell-Man [Along the dark and silent night]
Author: (Poet) Robert Herrick [More Titles by Herrick]

Along the dark and silent night,
With my lantern and my light
And the tinkling of my bell,
Thus I walk, and this I tell:
--Death and dreadfulness call on
To the general session;
To whose dismal bar, we there
All accounts must come to clear:
Scores of sins we've made here many;
Wiped out few, God knows, if any.
Rise, ye debtors, then, and fall
To make payment, while I call:
Ponder this, when I am gone:
--By the clock 'tis almost One.

[The end]
(Poet) Robert Herrick's poem: Bell-Man [Along the dark and silent night]

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