Riflemen, Riflemen, Riflemen form! |
Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good. |
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 a slowly dying cause,/ And ancient forms of party strife;/ Ring in the nobler modes of life,/ With sweeter manners, purer laws. |
Ring out false pride in blood and place,/ The civic slander and the spite. |
Ring out the false, ring in the true. |
Ring out the feud of rich and poor,/ Ring in redress to all mankind. |
Ring out the grief that saps the mind, for those that were here we see no more. |
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 thousand wars of old,/ Ring in the thousand years of peace. |
Ring out the want, the care, the sin,/ The faithless coldness of the times. |
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; |
Ringed with the azure world, he stands./ The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;/ He watches from his mountain walls,/ And like a thunderbolt he falls. |
Round thee with the breeze of song/ To stir a little praise of dust. |
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control - these three alone lead life to sovereign power. |