RING OUT 2020
The year 2020 was not the one which deserves to be thanked
for having come, but it does deserve a quick farewell with the REQUEST not to
cast its ugly shadows on any future year of our beautiful planet.
The Covid-19 pandemic which emerged in almost the very
beginning of the year and continued to prevail throughout the year, disturbed almost every area of human life all
over the world. It became a deadly curse, day in and day out, affecting the
health and happiness of millions of people.
There was no immediate remedy to curb it except to bring a change in the human behaviour, like masking the face,
keeping social distance, and washing hands
frequently, remaining indoors and avoiding all sorts of physical gatherings.
The hope of getting rid of this harrowing affliction or even putting
a strong check on it, rested on the most
intelligent medical fraternity. Thank
God they rose to the occasion and through their fast and intensive research
succeeding in producing best possible results in the form of vaccines.
Each one of us should earnestly pray to the invisible forces
above that the vaccine which comes into
being turns out to be safe and effective and becomes accessible to every eligible
person at a modest price.
What follows are some stanzas of a poem written by English poet Lord Alfred
Tennyson (1809-1892). Though very old, the
core message of the poem is as relevant today as it ever was.
The title of the poem is “Ring Out, Wild Bells.”
“Ring out the old, ring in the new,/Ring happy bells, across
the snow;/The year is going, let it 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 of all
mankind.
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.
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.”
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Wishing all the readers a perfectly healthy and happy New
Year 2021.
G.R.KANWAL: 31.12.2020
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