Verse For To-day
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 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.
From “In Memoriam,” by Lord Alfred Tennyson, 1809-1892.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27277, 31 December 1949, Page 1
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