Moral Pieces, in Prose and Verse/On Hearing a Tolling Bell

by Lydia Sigourney

ON HEARING A TOLLING BELL.

CAST out and banish'd from thy sight,
    I cannot live without thy love,
I cannot dwell without thy light,
    In earth below, or heaven above.

Cast me not off: my strength is small;
    What can I in the day of death?
Forsake me not, or else I fall,
    My life is but an airy breath.