Ring out, Wild Bells

Make a disambig page for Waltham. Do sheet music for either the Mendelssohn or the Mozart music. See the Cyberhymnal article on William Wallace Gilchrist and compare the songs in his list to verify that the tune listed of a W. W. Gilchrist is his, and to discover its name.

Sheet Music

Using the tune from The Hymnal, by United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., 1911 (no. 647)

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• Copyright: Public Domain
• Contributer: Veramet 20:27, 2 January 2008 (MST)
• Notes: There has been a slight modification so that the in the first phrase is not accented.

External Sheet Music

• Version from the 1985 LDS Hymnal, using the tune Marsden (Flash viewable/playable/printable sheet music, from LDS.org)

Tunes

• Marsden, by Crawford Gates (b. 1921)—written specifically for Ring Out, Wild Bells.**Copyright: 1948 IRI
• Tune by W. W. Gilchrist as seen in First and Second Book in Vocal Music, 1901 (p. 48)*Tune by Mendelssohn as seen in The Life Hymnal: A Book of Song and Service for the Sunday School, 1904 (no. 64)*Arr. from the Kyrie in the “Twelfth Mass,” attributed to Mozart—Tune from The Hymnal, by United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., 1911 (no. 647)
• A setting by Gounod (also it was once transcribed for the organ by Frank West)**Copyright: This setting has yet to be found published (although it is mentioned in a public domain book) and so the copyright may be unknown.*Waltham by John Baptiste Calkin (1827–1905), 1872

Lyrics

• Poet: Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892), 1850
• Copyright: Public Domain

Lyrics from The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song, 1910 (p. 576)

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. Ring out a slowly dying cause,
And ancient forms of party strife:
Ring in the nobler modes of life,
With sweeter manners, purer laws.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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.