Good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.
Luke 2:10
Words: George C. Hugg, On Wings of Song (Philadelphia: George C. Hugg, 1896), number 209.
Music: Adam Geibel (🔊 pdf nwc).
Sweet bells, ring on your Christmas song,
The old, old story telling,
Of angels bright on plains of light,
And heav’nly chorus swelling.
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Ring on, ring on,
Ye blessèd Christmas bells ring on;
Spread forth the news that Christ is born
On this sweet Christmas morn.
Ring peace on earth, good will to men,
Dear Dayspring of salvation;
Ring near and far, o’er moor and fen,
Ring joy to every nation.
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Ring Christ is born, on this sweet morn,
A babe in lowly manger;
While angel throng, with song upborne,
Proclaim the newborn Stranger.
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Ring out salvation full and free,
To every clime and nation,
Ring out the news to land and sea,
Glad tidings of salvation.
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