RirVG.' GDI. UJILO BELLS
Ring out, wild bells, to^-the wild sky, f
The flying cloud, the frosty light; {
The year is dying in the night;
Ring out, 'vild bells, and let him die.
Ring out the old, ring in the new, ^
Ring, happy bells, across the snow; \
The\year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring ,in the true.
Ring out php. grief that .saps the mind, (
For- thoV^fea-t here we. see no more;
Ring: put the feud of rich and poor,
Ring in redress to ali mankind.
Ring cut a slowly dying cause,
And ancient forms of party strife;
Ring in the nobler modes of life,
V'ith sweeter manners, purer laws.
j Ring out the want, the care, t.he sin,
1 The•fa ithiess.coldness of the times;
^ Ring out, r'ing'out my mournful rhymes,
But ring the fuller minstrel in.
| Ring: out false , pr.ide in place and bloody
The civic slander'and the spite;
, Ring in the love of truth and right,
■ -;R.*-in the common love of good,
i Ring out old shapes of.foul disease;
.Ring out the narrowing lust of gold;
y■ 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. darknes’s of the land, ^
^.Ring in the Christ that is to be • ^
Alfred, Lord Tennyson