Ring on, merry bells (Charles Edward Pollock)

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• (Posted 2023-11-29)  CPDL #77702:     

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-29).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 365 kB   Copyright: Personal

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Title: Ring on, merry bells
Composer: Charles Edward Pollock
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: Unknown

First published: 1885 E. T. Pound
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Original text and translations

English text

Ring on, ye bells, with joyful tale,
Far over lake and lea;
Make glad my lovely, native vale,
As it was wont to be.
Ring out your cheerful, earnest chime,
And bid the gathering throng,
Within these walls keep holy time,
With heartfelt praise and song;

Ring on, merry bells,
Ring, ye joyful bells.

Sweet is your tuneful, changeful play,
As on the gale it swells,
Or softly floats and dies away,
A-down the distant hills.
Ring on, and let your joyful peal
Resound afar and near,
Bid old and young from hill and dale,
Devoutly worship here.

Ring on, merry bells,
Ring, ye joyful bells.