Happy New Year!
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
New Year's Morning (Excerpt)
by Helen Hunt Jackson
Always a night from old to new!
Night and the healing balm of sleep!
Each morn is New Year's morn come true,
Morn of a festival to keep.
All nights are sacred nights to make
Confession and resolve and prayer;
All days are sacred days to wake
New gladness in the sunny air.
Only a night from old to new;
Only a sleep from night to morn.
The new is but the old come true;
Each sunrise sees a new year born.
The Old Year
John Clare (1793 - 1864)
The Old Year's gone away
. .To nothingness and night:
We cannot find him all the day
.Nor hear him in the night:
He left no footstep, mark or place
. .In either shade or sun:
The last year he'd a neighbour's face,
. .In this he's known by none.
All nothing everywhere:
. .Mists we on mornings see
Have more of substance when they're here
. .And more of form than he.
He was a friend by every fire,
. .In every cot and hall--
A guest to every heart's desire,
. .And now he's nought at all.
Old papers thrown away,
. .Old garments cast aside,
The talk of yesterday,
. .Are things identified;
But time once torn away
. .No voices can recall:
The eve of New Year's Day
. .Left the Old Year lost to all.
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