Bailey Family Archives, Annette Page Collection, Dr. Peter Hyypio Collection
Made/Created
Artist Information
Artist
Sarah Harrison Bailey
Role
Composer
Date made
circa 1850
Inscription/Signature/Marks
Type
Poem
Location
Front
Transcription
Those evening bells those evening bells
How many a tale their music tells
Of youth and home and native clime
When I last heard their soothing chime
Those pleasant hours have passted away
And many a heart that then was gay
Within the tomb now darkley dwells
And hears no more those evening bells
And so twill be when I am gone
That tuneful peal will still sing on
When others bards shall walk those dells
And sing your praise sweet evening bells
O is not this a holy spot
This the high place of freedoms birth
God of our fathers it is not
The holiest spot of all the earth
Sarah Bailey
Type
Signature
Location
verso
Transcription
Sarah Bailey
Location
Building
Birth Room, Bailey House
Provenance
Notes
This poem was donated by Cornell University through Dr. Hyypio or Annette Bailey Page in the late 1980s.
