Ring Out the Old, Ring In the New!
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eldritchhobbitThanks to all of you for your friendship throughout this past year. Best wishes to you for a very merry New Year's Eve and a fantastic 2016!
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 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 to 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.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson, "Ring Out, Wild Bells"
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 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 to 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.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson, "Ring Out, Wild Bells"
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Date: 2015-12-31 01:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-12-31 02:02 pm (UTC)Happy New Year's Eve.
May 2016 be a good year for all of us.
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Date: 2015-12-31 02:15 pm (UTC)It's been a.....daunting year in so many ways. But this poem reminds me that humans hope and strive and love and *think*, eternally.
May 2016 be a year that we add to all of the noble things that ALT so passionately writes about.
Have a blessed and beautiful New Year, Amy!
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Date: 2015-12-31 08:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-12-31 09:07 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2016-01-01 11:34 am (UTC)And may you have the very best New Year!
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