Ring Out, Wild Bells, to the Wild Sky
There is something of the marvelous in the hearing of the Tower Bell when it rings out its song into the skies!
Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, …
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.
These lines are from a poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, published in 1850.