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The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Bell, Song of the

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1468364The Encyclopedia Americana — Bell, Song of the

BELL, Song of the (‘Lied von der Glocke’), a poem which is generally considered Schiller's masterpiece. It was first published in the Musenalmanach, in 1800. In this work the various operations attending the casting of the bell are made to symbolize the whole course of human life.