<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357393" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A New Year Thought</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Brother, who on some near morrow<br>Makes a pledge conceived in sorrow<br>Makes a New Year resolution<br>Seeking plenary ablution.<br>Makes a vow to cease from sinning<br>With this New Year's beginning <br>Here's a thought to give you gladness,<br>Here's relief from old year sadness.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Brother, you and I are men.<br>We have sinned; and yet again<br>Shall we sin. An old year's dying<br>Still shall find us ever trying.<br>Yet here is a thought worth knowing,<br>While our wild oats we are sowing,<br>Sowing where we may not reap <br>Here's a thought to have and keep.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Why waste effort in our sinning,<br>For no goodlier grace we're winning?<br>Let our failings serve an end<br>That shall stand us as a friend.<br>But when we make resolutions <br>Bets of New Year institutions <br>Let us heed the later breaking<br>In an effort of their making.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thus, philosophy is giving<br>Some excuse for our loose living.<br>For, while these resolves we make<br>Now to hold, and now to break,<br>We are in our misbehaving<br>Helping greatly with the paving<br>Built of potsherd, scrap and shred<br>That we'll some day have to tread.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Clarence+Michael+James+Stanislaus+Dennis">Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis</a><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=357393" data-title="A New Year Thought de Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis" data-description="Brother, who on some near morrow Makes a pledge conceived in sorrow Makes a New Year resolution Seeking plenary ablution. Makes a vow to cease from sinning With this New Year's beginning Here's a thought to give you gladness, Here's relief from o..."></div> </div> </div>

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