Ring Out Wild Bells!

In this episode for New Year’s Eve I read Tennyson’s great passage about the New Year Bells. Here is the text of the passage I read from In Memoriam CVI
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 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.
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[@stephenandcas]

Happy New Year. May your pipe be full, your Matches dry and your cigars sweet,

[@geoffwood6044]

And your woman be warm.

[@Nighttrainpiper]

Sorrow touched with joy is our lot. But what joy

[@MalcolmGuitespell]

indeed!

[@jackbuckley7816]

Nice presentation of 2 poems totally new to me. I must keep them in mind for all the New Years to come! I always feel I'm in the presence of Tennyson himself when visiting Mr. Guite's delightfully cluttered library, as he bears a striking resemblance to the great Victorian poet.

[@victorjonson6046]

Happy new year from Sweden! Where this poem is read on television every year!

[@eddiespence8775]

Heartfelt, heartwarming giving flight to the past & great positivity to the future. Beautiful Malcolm.

[@sandraevans7881]

Lament and hope. And joy! Happy New Year to you all.

[@MalcolmGuitespell]

Happy new year!

[@skmcc9252]

That was wonderful. You're a lovely man Malcolm ...thank you.

[@MalcolmGuitespell]

Thanks for listening

[@OldGreyMare]

Thank you - you may be missing the bells but you managed to toll some good ones here. A blessing!

[@MalcolmGuitespell]

Thanks for listening

[@sandrofazzolari8833]

I love that poem... thanks 🙏 for sharing! SF.

[@MalcolmGuitespell]

Thanks for listening

[@dw2hite]

Happy New Year. May you have a good one. Thanks for all your visits and readings throughout the year.

[@loveandpeace1985]

Happy new year! God bless!

[@MalcolmGuitespell]

Happy new year!

[@christinemartin63]

Holy Toledo! Beautifully read. (The eternal quest for the good ...)

[@user-kh5ig4tr9y]

😊❤

[@linjicakonikon7666]

"He does give to us HIS JOY, that our grief he may destroy; Till our grief is fled and gone, HE does sit by us and moan." William Blake. (This Tennyson poem is is profound and so timely). Ring the bells of Love from your heart!!

[@MalcolmGuitespell]

thanks, I love Blake and will do a spell in the library about him soon!

[@martymartin7962]

I hear the bells, ringing. I hear them in the tears, and laughter of my child. I hear them in the voice of the one I love. I hear them in the hopefulness you share with us Malcolm, and I hear them in the voice of my Savior, Christ Jesus. Ring bells!

[@oldandintheway1955]

Ring out the darkness indeed! Renewed hope for a better, safer & kinder New Year.

[@samueltexasbelavarga5571]

Happy and better new year from Hungary!!!! Love your vest.

[@kurtisneilmcinnis8353]

Happy New Year! And thank you for your help throughout the last.

[@mith2946]

Happy New Year. Ring it out indeed.

[@MalcolmGuitespell]

Happy new year!

[@joshuaroberts7898]

Happy New Year Malcolm. A very great gift to give, thankyou.

[@michaeldacombe1759]

Beautifully read - Happy New Year!

[@TammyRochelle]

Yes and amen to ringing in Christ and a new year. Thanks Malcolm 🎆

[@lareunoia]

beautiful, Malcolm. Thank you. and Happy New Year

[@MalcolmGuitespell]

Happy new year!

[@MarkDaniels1517]

Thank you for the inspirational reading of Tennyson.

[@MalcolmGuitespell]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@ddogwithtwods4487]

Happy New Year and thank you for all your positive messages throughout this last difficult year 🙂

[@MalcolmGuitespell]

Happy new year!!

[@mikegodfrey2221]

Happy New Year -more wonderful poetry Malcolm thankyou :)

[@nicolamills1943]

Happy New Year to you and your family. And heartfelt thanks for your kindness and generosity in letting us come into your library for these spells. They have been of enormous help in getting through the year - little glimpses of light.

[@MalcolmGuitespell]

You are so welcome

[@timhower3628]

Happy new year to you Pastor.

[@samueltexasbelavarga5571]

Beautiful watch chain.

[@RitterTree]

Happy New Year sir

[@MarkEGreen-rf4on]

Happy New Year, Malcolm! May 2021 be a better year. God bless.

[@MalcolmGuitespell]

thanks!

[@dalepiper6693]

Happy New Year to you & yours.

[@MalcolmGuitespell]

Happy new year!

[@morgand1995]

what a lovely video. i think it's popped up in my algorithm because i was trying to explain the annual reading of ring klocka ring in sweden to a friend at new year's, the listening to which, and analysis of, is a new year treat for me and swedish people alike. don't think tennyson would've seen that coming. (though i prefer it in swedish! lol)

[@MalcolmGuitespell]

Wonderful!

[@user-kh5ig4tr9y]

You look great 😊❤🎉

[@JohnRutherford205]

Happy New Year, Malcolm! I sincerely hope it's better for us, for all of us, next year.

[@MalcolmGuitespell]

yes I hope so

[@SelfSufficientZ]

Beautiful! Happy New Year Malcom

[@MalcolmGuitespell]

Happy new year!

[@ericdingler672]

Happy New Year brother! 🥃💨💨💨💨

[@MalcolmGuitespell]

Same to you!

[@postscript67]

Before going to bed this New Year's morning, I thought I'd find a reading of Tennyson's "Ring Out Wild Bells" to help me go to sleep in the right frame of mind, and was delighted to find yours. It's also nice to see someone who has their books in a similar arrangement to my own! Happy New Year from Shetland.

[@MalcolmGuitespell]

thanks, its good to know these 'spell' have reached as far as your beautiful island!

[@KnucklesMcGinty41]

Happy New Year!

[@anselman3156]

From Scotland, I wish you a happy hogmanay. We still call it "the bells" even when we hear none. Happy New Year!

[@geoffwood6044]

From the East End of London to you Scots, happy hogmanay/ New Year to you.

[@anselman3156]

@@geoffwood6044 Have a great (if necessarily quieter) celebration!

[@geoffwood6044]

@@anselman3156 Jack Daniels and a bowl of Strawberry Cough mate, stay well and stay warm fella, see you in 21

[@anselman3156]

@@geoffwood6044 I have a nice little beer or two lined up. Bless you, friend.

[@geoffwood6044]

@@anselman3156 I'll raise a glass at midnight to you and yours my friend, stay well.

[@user-kh5ig4tr9y]

😊❤🎉

[@ShubhamBhushanCC]

Just sitting down with my Tolkien and my pipe

[@cons6572]

Hello, weird question, do you play chess at all?

[@MalcolmGuitespell]

yes

[@mauriziotirabassi2009]

Happy New Year sir

[@MalcolmGuitespell]

Same to you