Ring Out Wild Bells

from Being Myself - Album by Paul Field 2016

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Ring out wild bells

Ring out wild bells to the wild sky, the flying cloud the frosty light
The year is dying in the night, ring out wild bells and let him die

Ring out the old ring in the new, ring happy bells, across the snow
The year is going let him go, ring out the false ring in the true

Ring out the grief that saps the mind for those that here we see no more
Ring out the feud of rich and poor, ring in redress to all mankind

Ring out a slowly dying cause and ancient forms of party strife
Ring in the nobler modes of life with sweeter manners purer laws

Ring out the want the care the sin, the faithless coldness of the times
Ring out ring out my mournful rhymes but ring the fuller minstrel in

Ring out false pride in place and blood, the civic slander and the spite
Ring in the love of truth and right, ring in the common love of good

Ring out old shapes of foul disease, ring out the narrow lust for gold
Ring out the thousand wars of old, ring in the thousand years of peace

Ring in the valiant man and free the larger heart the kinder hand
Ring out the darkness of the land, ring in the Christ that is to be

Words : Alfred Lord Tennyson 1850
Music & Arrangement : © Paul Field

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from Being Myself - Album, released August 8, 2016

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