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Ring out, wild bells Lord Alfred Tennyson, 1809 - 1892

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, let him go;

Ring out the false, ring in the true.

Ring out the 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;
  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,