The New Year (Henry Lahee)

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• (Posted 2023-11-07)  CPDL #77060:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-07).   Score information: Letter, 4 pages, 246 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: The New Year
Composer: Henry Lahee
Lyricist: Alfred Tennyson
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1872 Tonic Sol-Fa Agency
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Original text and translations

English text

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 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.