TO THE OLD YEAR
TO THE OLD YEAR
Oldyear, farewell!Much have you given which was ill to bear:Much have taken which was dear, so dear:Much have you spoken which was ill to hear;Echoes of speech first uttered deep in hell.Pass now like some grey harlot to the tomb!Yet die in child-birth, and from out your wombLeap the young year unsullied! He perchanceShall bring to man his lost inheritance.
Oldyear, farewell!Much have you given which was ill to bear:Much have taken which was dear, so dear:Much have you spoken which was ill to hear;Echoes of speech first uttered deep in hell.Pass now like some grey harlot to the tomb!Yet die in child-birth, and from out your wombLeap the young year unsullied! He perchanceShall bring to man his lost inheritance.
Oldyear, farewell!Much have you given which was ill to bear:Much have taken which was dear, so dear:Much have you spoken which was ill to hear;Echoes of speech first uttered deep in hell.
Oldyear, farewell!
Much have you given which was ill to bear:
Much have taken which was dear, so dear:
Much have you spoken which was ill to hear;
Echoes of speech first uttered deep in hell.
Pass now like some grey harlot to the tomb!Yet die in child-birth, and from out your wombLeap the young year unsullied! He perchanceShall bring to man his lost inheritance.
Pass now like some grey harlot to the tomb!
Yet die in child-birth, and from out your womb
Leap the young year unsullied! He perchance
Shall bring to man his lost inheritance.