<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416824" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Old Year And The New</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As one in sorrow looks upon<br>The dead face of a loyal friend,<br>By the dim light of New Year's dawn<br>I saw the Old Year end.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Upon the pallid features lay<br>The dear old smile--so warm and bright<br>Ere thus its cheer had died away<br>In ashes of delight.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The hands that I had learned to love<br>With strength of passion half divine,<br>Were folded now, all heedless of<br>The emptiness of mine.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The eyes that once had shed their bright<br>Sweet looks like sunshine, now were dull,<br>And ever lidded from the light<br>That made them beautiful.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>II.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The chimes of bells were in the air,<br>And sounds of mirth in hall and street,<br>With pealing laughter everywhere<br>And throb of dancing feet:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The mirth and the convivial din<br>Of revelers in wanton glee,<br>With tunes of harp and violin<br>In tangled harmony.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But with a sense of nameless dread,<br>I turned me, from the merry face<br>Of this newcomer, to my dead;<br>And, kneeling there a space,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I sobbed aloud, all tearfully:--<br>By this dear face so fixed and cold,<br>O Lord, let not this New Year be<br>As happy as the old!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=James+Whitcomb+Riley">James Whitcomb Riley</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=416824" data-title="The Old Year And The New de James Whitcomb Riley" data-description="I. As one in sorrow looks upon The dead face of a loyal friend, By the dim light of New Year's dawn I saw the Old Year end. Upon the pallid features lay The dear old smile--so warm and bright Ere thus its cheer had died away In ashes of delight...."></div> </div> </div>

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