<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=455784" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sonnets - II - The New Year</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">With supple boughs and new-born leaflets crowned,<br>Rejoicing in fresh verdure stands the tree,<br>Though weather-scarred and scooped by fire may be<br>Its ancient trunk. So may our lives be found<br>(God leaving still our roots within His ground.)<br>Where gaps of loss and waste show brokenly<br>May each new year that comes to greet us see<br>Branches, and foliage, and flowers abound.<br>Where Fortune, spoiling wayfarer, hath left<br>Unsightly rents, may garlands spring apace.<br>And if, perchance, some pitiless wind hath reft<br>Away what newer green shall ne'er replace,<br>May heaven-light come the closer for the cleft<br>O'er which no tender fronds shall interlace.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Mary+Hannay+Foott">Mary Hannay Foott</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=455784" data-title="Sonnets - II - The New Year de Mary Hannay Foott" data-description="With supple boughs and new-born leaflets crowned, Rejoicing in fresh verdure stands the tree, Though weather-scarred and scooped by fire may be Its ancient trunk. So may our lives be found (God leaving still our roots within His ground.) Where gap..."></div> </div> </div>

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