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 a slowly dying cause, And ancient forms of party strife,

Ring in the nobler modes of life, With sweeter manners purer laws.

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.

~Alfred Tennyson, 1850 ~J. Baptiste Calkin, 1872

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