And thou fulfilled thy date day after day,
And still to grief and question and surmise
Made never answer, keeping on thy way.
But still we love thee, for thou wert the last
To see the face which we no longer see,
And all the grace and glory of his past
Completes and ends and culminates in thee.
The New Year’s hands with good gifts may be full,
The New Year’s heart with love and peace may brim,
He cannot be to us as beautiful