The Year

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Photo by Cristian Escobar on Unsplash

What can be said in New Year rhymes,
That’s not been said a thousand times?

The new year’s come, the old years ago,
We know we dream; we dream we know.

We rise 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 pride, we sheet our dead.

We laugh, we weep, we hope, we fear,
And that’s the burden of a year.

David Rudder

1st January 2024

Short, succinct and sweet New Year’s day Blessings!

Thank you to
“Ella Wheeler Wilcox”, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Ella Wheeler Wilcox was an American author and poet (1850–1919).

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