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Here, on the threshold of the year, we feel
New thoughts. New plans perplex the mental view,
And fain would we endeavor thus to heal
The Old Year’s disappointments in the New.
As ends the year, to us all time must end—
As time’s knell soundeth, to our knell must toll—
Oh! may our lives so pass, that we may mend
The BODY’S sorrows in the RISEN SOUL.