A New Year's Poem

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.~~~Alfred, Lord Tennyson