The Year
By Ella Wheeler Wilcox
About.com
December 31, 2014
What can be said in New Year rhymes,
That's not been said a thousand times?
The new years come, the old years go,
We know we dream, we dream we know.
We rise up laughing with the light,
We lie down weeping with the night.
We hug the world until it stings,
We curse it then and sigh for wings.
We live, we love, we woo, we wed,
We wreathe our brides, we sheet our dead.
We laugh, we weep, we hope, we fear,
And that's the burden of the year.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (November 5, 1850 – October 30, 1919)
was an American Author and Poet.
http://poetry.about.com/od/poemsbytitley/l/blwilcoxtheyear.htm
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