{"id":108424,"date":"2022-01-03T12:21:54","date_gmt":"2022-01-03T17:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=108424"},"modified":"2022-01-03T17:57:54","modified_gmt":"2022-01-03T22:57:54","slug":"ring-out-wild-bells-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=108424","title":{"rendered":"Ring out, Wild Bells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,<br \/>\nThe flying cloud, the frosty light;<br \/>\nThe year is dying in the night;<br \/>\nRing out, wild bells, and let him die.<\/p>\n<p>Ring out the old, ring in the new,<br \/>\nRing, happy bells, across the snow:<br \/>\nThe year is going, let him go;<br \/>\nRing out the false, ring in the true.<br \/>\nRing out the grief that saps the mind,<br \/>\nFor those that here we see no more,<br \/>\nRing out the feud of rich and poor,<br \/>\nRing in redress to all mankind.<br \/>\nRing out a slowly dying cause,<br \/>\nAnd ancient forms of party strife;<br \/>\nRing in the nobler modes of life,<br \/>\nWith sweeter manners, purer laws.<br \/>\nRing out the want, the care the sin,<br \/>\nThe faithless coldness of the times;<br \/>\nRing out, ring out my mournful rhymes,<br \/>\nBut ring the fuller minstrel in.<\/p>\n<p>Ring out false pride in place and blood,<br \/>\nThe civic slander and the spite;<br \/>\nRing in the love of truth and right,<br \/>\nRing in the common love of good.<\/p>\n<p>Ring out old shapes of foul disease,<br \/>\nRing out the narrowing lust of gold;<br \/>\nRing out the thousand wars of old,<br \/>\nRing in the thousand years of peace.<\/p>\n<p>Ring in the valiant man and free,<br \/>\nThe larger heart, the kindlier hand;<br \/>\nRing out the darkness of the land,<br \/>\nRing in the Christ that is to be.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"de\" dir=\"ltr\">Daniele Crespi (1598 \u2013 19 July 1630) was an Italian painter.Saint Joseph\u2019s dream (Kunsthstorisches Museum Wien) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/27SdR2TeA3\">pic.twitter.com\/27SdR2TeA3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Yiannis Einstein-\u0399\u03c9\u03ac\u03bd\u03bd\u03b7\u03c2 \u0391\u03c1\u03b2\u03b1\u03bd\u03b9\u03c4\u03ac\u03ba\u03b7\u03c2 (@yianniseinstein) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yianniseinstein\/status\/1417518701411246083?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 20, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=108424\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[575,113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas","category-poetry-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108424"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108427,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108424\/revisions\/108427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}