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• Ring out, wild bells ...
  20-12-2016 16:12
  Med dette smukke digt af lord Alfred Tennyson vil jeg afslutte året og sige tak for 2016. Ring out, wild bells er skrevet for over hundrede år siden, men ordene er stadig lige sigende - og stadig lige aktuelle. Digtet bliver hver nytårsaften læst højt i vor familie; stærkt, smukt og til eftertanke inden aftenens klokker ringer det nye år ind. Godt Nytår!Ring out, wild bellsLord Alfred Tennyson, 1809 – 1892 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 rhymesBut 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
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