Ring Out, Wild Bells

1. 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.
   


2. 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.
   


3. 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.
   


4. Ring out a slowly dying cause,
   And ancient forms of party strife:
   Ring in the nobler modes of life,
   With sweeter manners, purer laws.
   


5. 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.
   


6. 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.
   


7. 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.
   


8. 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.