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Show iv'f Ring Out the Old Ring In th New 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 across the snow; s The year is going, m let him go; tfJf W Ring out the false, ferfj Ring out the JlT& I grief that saps the mind. For those that here we see no more; Ring out the feud of rich and poor, Ring in redress to all mankind. Ring out a slowly dying cause, And ancient forms of party strife; i Ring ln the nobler modes of life, I With sweeter manners, purer laws. Ring out the want, the care, the sin, The faithless coldness of the times; Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes, But ring the fuller minstrel in. Ring out false pride In place and blood. The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right. Ring in the common love of good. Ring out old shapes of foul disease; Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace. Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand; Ring out the darkness of the land, Ring ln the Christ that is to be. Lord Tennyson. |