RING out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light: The year is dying in the nightRing 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 for 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 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. TENNYSON. EASTER. I GOT me flowers to strew Thy way; I got me boughs off many a tree; But thou wast up by break of day, And brought'st Thy sweets along with Thee. The sun arising in the east. Though he give light, and the east perfume; If they should offer to contest Can there be any day but this, Though many suns to shine endeavor? We count three hundred, - but we miss: There is but one, and that one ever. HERBERT. V. HEROIC. PATRIOTIC. HISTORIC. -POLITICAL. "Pallas.-See yonder souls set far within the shade, Who in Elysian bowers the blessed seats do keep, BEN JONSON: Golden Age Restored. |