Browse Carols: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z # Toll! Toll! Because There Ends Tonight 1. Toll! toll! because there ends tonight An Empire old and vast: An Empire of unquestion'd right O'er present and o'er past. Stretching wide from East to West, Ruling over every breast, Each nation, kindred, tongue and caste. 2. Toll! toll! because a monarch dies, Whose tyrant statutes ran From polar snows to tropic skies, From Greenland to Japan: Crowded cities, lonely glens, Oceans, mountains, shores and fens, All own'd him sovran lord of man. 3. Toll! toll! because that monarch fought Right fiercely for his own; And utmost craft and valour brought Before he was o'erthrown: He the lord, and man the slave: His the kingdom of the grave, And all its vasty dim unknown. 4. Joy! joy! because a Babe is born, Who, after many a toil, The scorner's pride shall laugh to scorn, And work the foiler's foil: God, as Man, the earth bath trod: Therefore man shall be as God, And reaping, reap the spoiler's spoil. Browse Carols: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z #