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| 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. | |
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| Ring out the old, ring in the new— | 5 |
| Ring, happy bells, across the snow: | |
| The year is going, let him go; | |
| Ring out the false, ring in the true. | |
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| Ring out the grief that saps the mind, | |
| For those that here we see no more; | 10 |
| Ring out the feud of rich and poor, | |
| Ring in redress to all mankind. | |
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| Ring out a slowly dying cause, | |
| And ancient forms of party strife; | |
| Ring in the nobler modes of life, | 15 |
| With sweeter manners, purer laws. | |
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| 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. | 20 |
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| 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. | |
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| Ring out old shapes of foul disease, | 25 |
| Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; | |
| Ring out the thousand wars of old, | |
| Ring in the thousand years of peace. | |
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| Ring in the valiant man and free, | |
| The larger heart, the kindlier hand; | 30 |
| Ring out the darkness of the land— | |
| Ring in the Christ that is to be. | |
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