POEM OF THE MONTH


In Memoriam

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 (Stanzas 1 and 2)

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