Before the Baby Year has grown quite old and worn with time,

When it must leave us while the bells for a new year will chime.

But all resolves are very hard to always keep in mind,

And somehow they get broken and the pieces we can't find;

So that when "Baby New Year" grows hoary with old age,

We're glad to turn a fresh new leaf and close our last year's page.


NERVOUS JELLY

One day when there was company, wee greedy Lillie May