<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=117600" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A New Year's Greeting</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">TO A CIRCLE OF FRIENDS.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A kindly greeting to you all—<br>To all an opening year of gladness;<br>May never sorrow round you fall<br>More dark than evening's twilight sadness.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The wintry blast may whistle shrill,<br>And clouds may dim the face of heaven;<br>But Friendship's wreath shall blossom still,<br>On this our gladsome New-Year's even.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">While lips and hearts are smiling thus,<br>And hands are fondly clasp'd together,<br>Oh what are cloudy skies to us,<br>Or fortune's bright or sunny weather?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We may not meet, to hail again<br>Another year with hearts of lightness;<br>Some beating pulse may rest ere then,<br>Some eye have lost its wonted brightness.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We may have met, perchance—alas!<br>To mingle hearts and then be parted;<br>Or some dark blight may o'er us pass,<br>And leave us lone and broken-hearted.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But let the future smile, or frown,<br>The wing of hope is waving o'er us;<br>One gem of bliss is still our own,<br>And one bright rose of joy before us.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then may the rose be cherish'd well—<br>The sparkling gem be sullied never—<br>And parted Friendship's only knell,<br>Be when our hearts are still'd forever.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Elizabeth+Margaret+Chandler">Elizabeth Margaret Chandler</a> from <i>Poetical Works</i><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=117600" data-title="A New Year's Greeting de Elizabeth Margaret Chandler" data-description="TO A CIRCLE OF FRIENDS./A kindly greeting to you all—/To all an opening year of gladness;/May never sorrow round you fall/More dark than evening's twilight sadness./The wintry blast may whistle shrill,/And clouds may dim the face of heaven;/But ..."></div> </div> </div>

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