The Bells of Le Crotoy

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In the little village by the Baie bells still wake you every day And since not all the churches agree we wait white each has its pretty say then snuggle back for a little nap because a bel is just a bell and we're on holiday If we had really listened we might have heard them say We are the bells Jeanne d'Arc heard breaking over walls of prison stone the morning of her walk to Rouen and then never heard again We are the bells Jules Verne heard rattling rough shuttered windows get up lazy writer and grasp for that pen you have leagues to write 'fore you rest again We are the bells that the fisherman heard on the mornings behind their names on the monument to men lost at sea heard last before going to sea

Thinking of previous travels and the tradition of the bells in France falling silent prior to Easter. https://www.urbansider.com/easter-in-france/

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