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XI. NEW YEAR'S DAY. 1819.
TO MRS. DICKINSON.
Banquet and song, and dance and revelry!—
Auspicious year born in so fair a light
Of gaiety and beauty! happy night
Sacred to social pleasure, and to thee
Its dear dispenser, of festivity
The festive queen, the moving spirit bright
Of music and the dance, of all delight
The gentle mistress, bountiful and free.
Oh happy night! and oh succeeding day
Far happier! when 'mid converse and repose
Handel's sweet strains came sweetened, and the lay
Divine of that old Florentine arose,
Dante, and Genius flung his torch-like ray
O'er the dark tale of Ugolino's woes.
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