...empty. May your horse not cast a shoe, Nor the devil look at you in the coming year. • IRISH • 206 The year is dying in the night, Ring out wild bells,...let him die. Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring out the false, ring in the true. • ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON • Welcome be ye that are here, Welcome...

...celebrates the NewYear and looks to an end of his grieving over his friend and to better times for all. Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying...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...

...is to reign. Tennyson saw clearly this relation between Christmas and the New Year as he wrote: Ring out the old, Ring in the new. Ring happy bells, across...let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true. Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand; Ring out the darkness of the...

...For auld &c. ROBERT BURNS SCOTTISH (1759-1796) Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky From In Memoriam Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying...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...

...the poetry of Tennyson and Browning. He recited Tennyson's "In Memoriam" with special feeling. Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across...let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true. That poem spoke to all our hearts: Ring out false pride in place and blood . . . Ring in the common...

...Neujahrsglocken in "In Memoriam" (1833-1850) an, die ein neues Jahr, eine neue Ära überhaupt, ankündigen: Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying...let him go ; Ring out the false, ring in the true. 103 101 William Shakespeare, Macbeth (1.1) ed. Kenneth Muir, The Arden Shakespeare (Walton-on-Thames:...

...Whittier The merry year is born Like the bright berry from the naked thorn. — Hartley Coleridge Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across...let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true. — Alfred, Lord Tennyson New Year's Day is every man's birthday — Charles Lamb Every man should...

...With an Iron Coat of mail Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace. Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across...let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true. Ring out old shapes and foul disease; Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars...

...can write something better, something more pure. We find ourselves in the mood of Tennyson's poem: Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying...let him go: Ring out the false, ring in the true. But at the end of every year, we have the same shouting and the same songs to sing. The new year has...

...tree, O Christmas tree. Thy leaves are so unchanging. — Author unknown from Ring Out, Wild Bells Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across...let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true. —Alfred, Lord Tennyson Out of the cradle endlessly rocking, Out of the mocking-bird's throat, the...