I shall share the toll of your passing bell!"

Grieved, and sad,

For the sins and woes the Human had,

The Old Year strove to avert his eyes;

But fly or turn wherever he would,

On his vexed ear smote the mingled cries

Of revel and new-made widowhood—

Of grief that would not be comforted

With the loved and beautiful lying dead.

Evermore, every hour,