He wisely did New Year inaugurate
By playing truant to the favored five:
And sat installed at "The Varieties,"—
Playhouse appropriately named,—to note
(Prying amid the turf that 's flowery there)
What primrose, firstling of the year, might push
The snows aside to deck his buttonhole—
Unnoticed by that outline sad, severe,
(Though fifty good long years removed from youth,)
That tower and tower,—our image bear in mind!