- Ring Out, Wild Bells
"Ring Out, Wild Bells" is a poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Published in
1850 , the year he was appointedPoet Laureate , it forms part of In Memoriam, Tennyson's elegy toArthur Henry Hallam , his sister's fiancé who died at the age of twenty-two.Poem
: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 thy 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 is to be.
External links
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