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Nechama Chaya ([personal profile] med_cat) wrote2010-12-21 07:12 am

New Year's rhymes

What can be said in New Year rhymes,
That's not been said a thousand times?
The new years come, the old years go,
We know we dream, we dream we know.
We rise up laughing with the light,
We lie down weeping with the night.
We hug the world until it stings,
We curse it then and sigh for wings.
We live, we love, we woo, we wed,
We wreathe our brides, we sheet our dead.
We laugh, we weep, we hope, we fear,
And that's the burden of a year.


(Ella Wheeler Wilcox)

[identity profile] wirral-bagpuss.livejournal.com 2010-12-21 06:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Ahhh very true indeed. Written by someone who has witnessed life and knows what it is like to live! :)