O Bells of San Blas in vain Ye call back the…

O Bells of San Blas in vain
Ye call back the Past again;
The Past is deaf to your prayer!
Out of the shadows of night
The world rolls into light;
It is daybreak everywhere.

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The Bells of San Blas , st. 11 (March 15, 1882)

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