Old year, farewell ! <br /> <br />Much have you given which was ill to bear : <br />Much have taken which was dear, so dear : <br />Much have you spoken which was ill to hear ; <br />Echoes of speech first uttered deep in hell. <br /> <br />Pass now like some grey harlot to the tomb ! <br />Yet die in child-birth, and from out your womb <br />Leap the young year unsullied ! He perchance <br />Shall bring to man his lost inheritance.<br /><br />Frederick William (FW) Harvey<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/to-the-old-year/
