The Old Year Remains
[MAGINE not that midnight Saw the old year in flight Riding the bells to limbo. "HAT which passed was no more Than a page the wind bore Torn from a calendar. F OR the year remains the year That was hope, that was love, that was fear. y OU may shake off the sudden hand Of a stranger, but you may not disown The year that nested with your bone. T cannot leave you as you cannot leave yourself: It has become you, for it was its dawns of dread. Its heavy amorous nights, its whirling days That left you as you are yet uncompleted ; Till other years with sure and fateful fingers Shall build in you the figure of hope or doom.
J. R.
Hervey
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 341, 4 January 1946, Page 6
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130The Old Year Remains New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 341, 4 January 1946, Page 6
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