{"id":10787,"date":"2009-12-31T14:55:26","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T19:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=10787"},"modified":"2009-12-31T14:55:26","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T19:55:26","slug":"ring-out-wild-bells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2009\/12\/ring-out-wild-bells\/","title":{"rendered":"Ring Out Wild Bells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10792 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Church-Bells.jpg\" alt=\"Church Bells\" width=\"293\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Church-Bells.jpg 464w, https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Church-Bells-300x184.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 293px) 100vw, 293px\" \/>Following up on Kaimi\u2019s post concerning \u201cIt Came Upon a Midnight Clear,\u201d I thought we ought to take the opportunity to read over the full text of Lord Tennyson\u2019s \u201cRing Out Wild Bells,\u201d another frequently sung hymn whose lines concerning injustice, social inequity, political divisiveness, and faith we never sing!<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,<br \/>\nThe flying cloud, the frosty light;<br \/>\nThe year is dying in the night;<br \/>\nRing out, wild bells, and let him die.<\/p>\n<p>Ring out the old, ring in the new,<br \/>\nRing, happy bells, across the snow:<br \/>\nThe year is going, let him go;<br \/>\nRing out the false, ring in the true.<\/p>\n<p>Ring out the grief that saps the mind,<br \/>\nFor those that here we see no more,<br \/>\nRing out the feud of rich and poor,<br \/>\nRing in redress to all mankind.<\/p>\n<p>Ring out a slowly dying cause,<br \/>\nAnd ancient forms of party strife;<br \/>\nRing in the nobler modes of life,<br \/>\nWith sweeter manners, purer laws.<\/p>\n<p>Ring out the want, the care, the sin,<br \/>\nThe faithless coldness of the times;<br \/>\nRing out, ring out thy mournful rhymes,<br \/>\nBut ring the fuller minstrel in.<\/p>\n<p>Ring out false pride in place and blood,<br \/>\nThe civic slander and the spite;<br \/>\nRing in the love of truth and right,<br \/>\nRing in the common love of good.<\/p>\n<p>Ring out old shapes of foul disease,<br \/>\nRing out the narrowing lust of gold;<br \/>\nRing out the thousand wars of old,<br \/>\nRing in the thousand years of peace.<\/p>\n<p>Ring in the valiant man and free,<br \/>\nThe larger heart, the kindlier hand;<br \/>\nRing out the darkness of the land,<br \/>\nRing in the Christ that is to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following up on Kaimi\u2019s post concerning \u201cIt Came Upon a Midnight Clear,\u201d I thought we ought to take the opportunity to read over the full text of Lord Tennyson\u2019s \u201cRing Out Wild Bells,\u201d another frequently sung hymn whose lines concerning injustice, social inequity, political divisiveness, and faith we never sing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":10789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-corn"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Church-Bells.tiff","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10797,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10787\/revisions\/10797"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}