Small Ensemble Handbell,Piano,Voice - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.893975 Composed by Gabriel Ruiz-Bernal. Contemporary. Score and parts. 14 pages. Gabriel Ruiz-Bernal #6331921. Published by Gabriel Ruiz-Bernal (A0.893975). Commissioned by Colleen Daly for the St. Louis Concert seriesText by Alfred Lord TennysonRing 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 rhymesBut 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 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.​
