Ring in the True. – Wishing you a Strong New Year!

“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.” 

– Alfred Lord Tennyson

Wishing you a Strong New Year!

Why “Strong” you may ask?  In the spirit of Tennyson’s prose, one first requires Strength to achieve the life resilience that leads to Happiness.

The poem is worth a (re)read, as it appeals to the continuous values which resonates our humanness’s underlying strength.

Wishing you a Strong New Year!

73

Steve K9ZW

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The Full Poem:

Ring Out the Wild Bells (part of “In Memoriam for A.H.H.”)

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.

 

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.

1850 – more background at  https://infogalactic.com/info/Ring_Out,_Wild_Bells