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The snow has ceased its fluttering flight,
The wind sunk to a whisper light,
An ominous stillness fills the night,
A pause — a hush

Arm'd year
year of the struggle
No dainty rhymes or sentimental love verses for you, terrible year
Not you as some pale poetling, seated at a desk, lisping cadenzas         piano;

Thou two-faced year,
Mother of Change and Fate,
Didst weep when Spain cast forth with flaming sword,
The children of the prophets of the Lord,

The Old Year's gone
To nothingness and night:
We cannot find him all the
Nor hear him in the night:

Empty are the ways,
Empty are the ways of this land And the flowers Bend over with heavy heads
They bend in vain
Empty are the ways of this land Where Ione Walked once, and now does not walk But seems like a person just gone...

I cannot but
When the year grows old — October — November — How she disliked the cold
She used to watch the
Go down across the sky,

Is it we that are wise, is it we,
Who have bought with a price of grief A wisdom seldom free From scorn or disbelief,
Who find this world fulfil An end that is not our will,
Who toil with the light in our eyes Showing us scarce begu...

I
Never any more,  While I live,
Need I hope to see his face  As before
Once his love grown chill,  Mine may strive:

This is the time when bit by
The days begin to lengthen
And every minute gained is joy -And love stirs in the heart of a boy
This is the time the sun, of

If the year is meditating a suitable gift,
I should like it to be the attitudeof my great- great- grandmother,legendary devotee of the arts,who having eight childrenand little opportunity for painting pictures,sat one day on a high rockbeside...