Ring Out the Old, Ring in the New

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

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.

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.

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 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 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.