Ring Out Wild Bells

In 1850, Lord Alfred Tennyson published this poem as part of "In Memoriam", his elegy to Arthur Henry Hallam, his sister's fiancé who died at the age of 22.  
Alana Levandoski wrote the music and sings this version.

This is a song of hope... not of escape... not of avoiding the hard work that is still needed... but a song of hope, of longing, of vision

We live in a world of pain, of poverty, of racism, of archaic policies in Canada around Indigenous Peoples, of abuse, of hate, of slavery, of... you get the picture...

Ring in the valiant man and free,
The larger heart, the kindlier hand;
Ring out the darkness of the land,
Ring in the Christ that is to be.

It's a perfect song as we approach 

• a new year
• and epiphany