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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 redness 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 false pride in place and
blood,

The civic slander and spite;
Ring in the love of truth and right,
Right 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 Out, Wild Bells" by Alfred,
Lord Tennyson