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FAREWELL TO THE YEAR.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


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FAREWELL TO THE YEAR.

Farewell to the year!—lo! dim shadows are veiling
Thy track o'er the past;—
A few more short days and the clouds which are sailing,
Behind us are cast.
How soon will those bells—which to-day have been ringing
From yon gothic pile,—
Peal loudly thy death-chaunt mid darkness up-springing,
Time's flight to beguile!
Thy spring and thy summer all golden are faded,
Their hopes too are dead—
The shrines which we wreathed with thy flowers are all shaded—
Thy beauty is fled!
Farewell to the year! I, like thee, am declining,—
My summer is o'er;
Feeble the torch-light, which, radiantly shining,
Flashed o'er me of yore.

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Farewell! ah farewell! spectral ghost, and for ever—
Thy guerdon a tear;
Shall we meet thee again in this cold world? ah! never,
Thou pale fading year.