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"Vivos voco Mortuos plango Fulgura frango." Fast, in its prison-walls of earth, Awaits the mould of baked clay. Up, comrades, up, and aid the birth The bell that shall be born to-day! Who would honor obtain, With the sweat and the pain, The praise that man gives to the master must buy. But the blessing withal must descend from on high!
I forgot ye can swaller nothin' but Toorko cum, squaki lorum ho po, doddie jairum frango whiskie looro whack? eh! Arrah! ye don't need to answer for fear the effort opens up yer wounds afresh. Farewell, lads, or may be it's wishin' ye fair-wind would be more nat'ral."
At intervals came the distant chimes of three distinct village churches ding dong, dong ding, pango, frango, jango very much jango bang, clatter, clash a humming vibration and dreadful stir.
Your fall is at hand, and you must learn, as your betters have done before you, that there's no withstanding the will of a Vallombreuse. 'Frango nec frangor, is my motto."
Some pious aspiration was still in many cases graved upon the border of the metal; but often, instead of the old 'funera plango, fulgura frango, &c., or the dedication to Virgin or saint, the churchwarden who ordered the bell would order also an inscription, composed by himself, commemorative of his work and office. The doggerel was sometimes absurd enough:
Durum patientia frango you are but a young man there may be many good things in store for you accidit in puncto quo non speratur in anno remember your uncle, Mr. Bowling; perhaps he is now on his voyage homeward, pleasing himself with the hopes of seeing and relieving you; nay, peradventure, he has already arrived, for the ship was expected about this time."
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