Monday, December 29, 2008

Ring Out,Wild Bells

This poem is a tribute to 2008.Happy New Year everyone!(Kinda early,but I probably won't have time to post this on New Year's Eve/Day)
Ring Out,Wild Bells by Lord Alfred Tennyson
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 the 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 the old shapes of foul disease,
Ring out the narrowing lust of gold;
Ring out the thousand years of war,
Ring in the thousand years of peace.
Ring in the valiant man and free,
The larger heart,the kindlier hand;
Ring out the darkness in the land,
Ring in the Christ that is to be.

1 comment:

  1. Ring .. a ling ling ling ...

    Happy New Year to you too !

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