Happy New Year, Minasan! Hope we all have a better one.

Ring Out, Wild Bells　　　Alfred Tennyson

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.

打ち出せ　荒ぶる鐘　荒ぶる空へ
疾駆する雲へ　凍てついた月へ
この年は　夜の闇で死にかけている
打ち出せ　荒ぶる鐘　そして死なせよ

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.

打ち出せ　古きものを　打ち入れよ　新しきものを
響け　雪の原を渡れ 幸せの鐘
この年はもう行く　行かせよ
打ち出せ　欺瞞を　打ち入れよ　真実を

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.

打ち出せ　心萎えさせる悲しみを
もうここでは会えぬ者たちへの
打ち出せ　富者と貧者の確執を
打ち入れよ　全人類の救済を

Ring out a slowly dying cause,
And ancient forms of party strife;
Ring in the nobler modes of life,
With sweeter manners, purer laws.

打ち出せ　褪せ行く大義や名分
そして　古めかしき政争を
打ち入れよ　より高貴な生き様を
より優しき礼節と　より純粋な法律を

Ring out the want, the care, the sin,
The faithless coldness of the times;
Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes
But ring the fuller minstrel in.

打ち出せ　煩悩　心労　罪を
時代の不実な冷たさを
打ち出せ　この陰気な我がライムを
が　打ち入れよ　より十全な吟遊詩人を

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.

打ち出せ　地位と血筋へのおごりを
巷に溢れる中傷と悪意を
打ち入れよ　真実と正義への愛を
打ち入れよ　善への普遍の愛を

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.

打ち出せ　古き悪疾を
打ち出せ　深まる金塊への渇望を
打ち出せ　一千の古き戦争を
打ち入れよ　一千年の平和を

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.

打ち入れよ　勇気ある　自由なる者を
より大きな心と　より温かき手の
打ち出せ　この地の暗黒を
打ち入れよ　救世主となる者を