A lovely 1883 edition of Ring Out Wild Bells by Alfred Tennyson, the great Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland.
Written by Alfred Lord Tennyson. Illustrated by L. B. Humphrey. Engravings by George T. Andrew. Published in 1883. Lee and Shepard, Publishers, Boston. New York: Charles T. Dillingham.
Alfred Tennyson (1809 – 1892) was Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland through most of the Victorian era. This lovely volume illustrates a famous poem that you may recognize from New Year's Eve traditions, and which is appropriate to our own times nearly a hundred and fifty years after it was written.
"Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,
The flying cloud, the frosty light:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
"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,
Rin 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."
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Condition*: Very Good. Lacks dust jacket, as issued. Cover boards: Bumped at head and tale of spine and top and bottom corners; slightly soiled on the back; minor shelf wear. Interior: Spine cracked at between front endpapers; slight soiling from fingerprints.
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