2。Thebibliographicalhistoryof“TheBells“iscurious。Thesubject，andsomelinesoftheoriginalversion，havingbeensuggestedbythepoet’sfriend，Mrs。Shew，Poe，whenhewroteoutthefirstdraftofthepoem，headedit，“TheBells，ByMrs。M。A。Shew。”Thisdraft，nowtheeditor’sproperty，consistsofonlyseventeenlines，andreadthus：
I。
Thebells！-ah，thebells！
Thelittlesilverbells！
Howfairy-likeamelodytherefloatsFromtheirthroats