new year 203

Ring Out, Wild Bells


Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847)

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1. Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The fly ing cloud, the
2. Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, hap py bells a
3. Ring in the val iant man and free, The lar ger heart, the

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frost y light: The year is dy ing in the night; Ring
cross the snow: The year is go ing, let him go; Ring
kind lier hand; Ring out the dark ness of the land, Ring




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out, wild bells, and let him die. The year is dy ing
out the false, ring in the true. The year is go ing,
in the Christ that is to be. Ring out the dark ness




Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.

Ring out the false, ring in the true.

Ring in the Christ that is to be.
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in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.
let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.
of the land, Ring in the Christ that is to be.

      

from The Life Hymnal, 1904