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Poem “New Year” by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Poems of Progress and New Thought Pastels

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New Year


Mortal:

   ‘The night is cold, the hour is late, the world is bleak and drear;
   Who is it knocking at my door?’

The New Year:

   ‘I am Good Cheer.’

Mortal:

   ‘Your voice is strange; I know you not; in shadows dark I grope.
   What seek you here?’

The New Year:

   ‘Friend, let me in; my name is Hope.’

Mortal:

   ‘And mine is Failure; you but mock the life you seek to bless.
   Pass on.’

The New Year:

   ‘Nay, open wide the door; I am Success.’

Mortal:

   ‘But I am ill and spent with pain; too late has come your wealth.
   I cannot use it.’

The New Year:

   ‘Listen, friend; I am Good Health.’

Mortal:

   ‘Now, wide I fling my door.  Come in, and your fair statements prove.’

The New Year:

   ‘But you must open, too, your heart, for I am Love.’


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