A HAPPY NEW YEAR

 

 

A
 
Happy
 
new year

Ring 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,
A-cross the snow.

 
 
 
 

image of 2 robins
on a holly bush branch,
and words beneath in small writing:
 
A HAPPY NEW YEAR

 
 

The year is Going,
Let him go;
Ring out The false,
Ring in the true.

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.
                           Tennyson

 

Signed: "T.STEVENS COVENTRY." on back at pointed end:
There is also a woven Diamond Registration mark, although unfortunately it is not possible to read the detail on the only image I have.

Stevens logo on the reverse pointed end of this bookmark,
together with the woven Diamond Registration mark.

This design was registered on 30 June 1871 (Number 253665).
However, the registration record only records the title as " A Happy New Year / Ring Out . . . ".
There are actually two bookmarks with this title:
" A Happy New Year / Ring Out The Wild Bells" (sb199), and
" A Happy New Year / Ring Out Wild Bells" (the one above).