The old year is rung out by “wild bells to the wild sky;” and he would have these ring out all abuses and evils, and ring in all good, and the various blessings which he enumerates—
“Ring out the thousand wars of old,
Ring in the thousand years of peace,”
the millennium; and last of all,
“Ring in the Christ that is to be;”
God Himself again upon earth.
CVII.
“It is the day when he was born,”
the anniversary of Hallam’s birth, which took place in Bedford Place, London, on 1st February, 1811.
One may suppose this Poem to have been written at night, because the description is of
“A bitter day that early sank
Behind a purple frosty bank
Of vapour, leaving night forlorn.”