Now lies the Earth all Danaë to the stars, And all thy heart lies open unto me. Now slides the silent meteor on, and leaves A shining furrow, as thy thoughts in me. Now folds the lily all her sweetness up, In height and cold, the splendour of the hills? But cease to move so near the Heavens, and cease And find him; by the happy threshold, he, Or foxlike in the vine; nor cares to walk So waste not thou; but come; for all the vales Await thee; azure pillars of the hearth Arise to thee; the children call, and I Thy shepherd pipe, and sweet is every sound, R 'RING OUT, WILD BELLS.' ING 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 : Ring out the false, ring in the true. |