Hymn: Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky
- Title: Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky
- First Line: Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky
- Hymnal: The Hymnal: as authorized and approved by the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America in the year of our Lord 1916
- Denomination: (Protestant) Episcopal Church
- Publisher: Church Pension Fund
- Publication Date: 1916
Author(s)
- Author Name: Alfred Tennyson
- Born: 1809
- Died: 1892
- Gender: M
Full Text
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 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. 405 Ring out old shapes of foul disease, Ring out the narrowing lust of 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 kindlier hand; Ring out the darkness of the land, Ring in the Christ that is to be.