Ring Out, Wild Bells (In Memoriam 106)

5Ring out the old, ring in the new,

6Ring, happy bells, across the snow:

7The year is going, let him go;

8Ring out the false, ring in the true.

9Ring out the grief that saps the mind,

10For those that here we see no more;

11Ring out the feud of rich and poor,

12Ring in redress to all mankind.

13Ring out a slowly dying cause,

14And ancient forms of party strife;

15Ring in the nobler modes of life,

16With sweeter manners, purer laws.

17Ring out the want, the care, the sin,

18The faithless coldness of the times;

19Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes,

20But ring the fuller minstrel in.

21Ring out false pride in place and blood,

22The civic slander and the spite;

23Ring in the love of truth and right,

24Ring in the common love of good.

25Ring out old shapes of foul disease,

26Ring out the narrowing lust of gold;

27Ring out the thousand wars of old,

28Ring in the thousand years of peace.

29Ring in the valiant man and free,

30The larger heart, the kindlier hand;

31Ring out the darkness of the land,

32Ring in the Christ that is to be.