Gravely plain the good pen lined it,

And the Fifty Six all signed it;

Pledged their lives to seal and bind it,

True and well!

Then sudden from the steeple,

Changed the tocsin of the people,

Spoke the sum of history’s pages,

Peaked the thoughts of saints and sages,

Rang the keynote of the ages,—in the Bell.

“The Liberty Bell” by Howard S. Taylor, qtd. in The Suppressed Truth About the Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, p. 27