BIRDS AND NATURE. 



ILLUSTRATED BY COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY. 



JANUARY, 1901. No. 1 



THE OLD YEAR. 



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. 



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 in redress to all mankind. 



Ring out false pride in place and blood. 

 The civic slander and the spite; 

 Ring in the love of truth and right. 



Ring 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 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. 



-Alfred Tennyson. 



