Shouldn’t it be, “Ring out, wild bells”? You would think so. I would think so. Apparently, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, did not. Maybe he wanted the line to go faster — more like “Ring-out ...

Cassandra quotes below a poet she never could enjoy – Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809 – 1892). He was 1 st Baron Tennyson and Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria’s reign. To her he sounds pompous ...