Sd#311

[theironhorse]

Sunday Dispatch #311


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.


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 darkenss of the land,
Ring in the Christ that is to be.


~Tennyson

[HeavensOnFire]

COMFORT YE.COMFORT ye my people saith Your God speak ye Comfortably to jerusalem and cry unto her that her warfare is accomplisheid that her iniqutiy is forgived for she hath received of the lords hand double for all her sins the voice of him that crieth in the wilderness prepare YE THE WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY OF THE LORD , make straight in the desert a HIGHWAY FOR OUR GOD, every valley shall be exalted and every mountain a hill shall be made low and the crooked path shalll be made straight and the rough places plain, ISA, 40 1. 11