Ring out, O bells, your peals to­day,
O ring, and do not cease;
For in a man­ger, far away,
Is born the Prince of Peace.

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Ring on, ye bells, O sweet­ly ring,
While we with hap­py voic­es sing!
Ring on, ring on, ring on, ye bells,
O sweet­ly ring, sweet­ly ring!

The shep­herds, far on Beth­l’hem’s plain,
Who guard their flocks by night,
See in the heav’n a shin­ing star,
With won­drous glo­ry bright.

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This was the star that hailed the birth
Of Je­sus Christ the Lord;
The Son and type of right­eous­ness,
Whom an­gels fair ad­ored.

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Now let us join, with one ac­cord,
And joy­ful be our praise;
Ring out, O bells, and sweet­ly chime
Your mer­ry Christ­mas lays!

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