Here the sledges with the bells, silver bells, what a world of merriment their melody foretells.
How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle in the icy air of night
How the stars that over sprinkle, all the heavens seem to twinkle in their crystalline delight.
Keeping time, time, time in a sort of runic rhyme
to the tintintabullation that so musical swells to the... ;-)

I had to memorize this in 6th grade and it stuck! I kind of like the verse about the funeral bells, too. Poe rocks!