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Show Ring Out the Old, Ring In the 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, across the snow; The year is going, 1-4 ?r m 'et l'm ' XxltlrJr jr out the 'aise, Yrlym ring In the true. tf,f Ring out the T 'tyJ MB I 8rie' that saps the mind. For those that here we see no more; Ring out the feud of rich and poor, Ring hi redress to all mankind. Ring out a slowly dying cause, And ancient forms of party strife; Ring in the nobler modes of life, 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 in the Christ that It to be. Lord Tennyson. |