...ring out:

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.


Ring out, wild bells
Alfred Lord Tennyson


Stay save and gave a good one
Xx

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