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Thou comest to the year,     And bringest all things beautiful and sweet;     Thy lovely miracles themselves repeat             In the green glory of the grass,     And peeping flowers that stay our lingering feet         With their soft eyes, blue like the sky and clear;             Thou bringest not, alas,         Our lily, our May-blossom, O New Year!         Thou bringest all things fair,     And bright, and gentle, but thou bring'st not her:     The May-birds warble, and May breezes stir             In the sweet-scented lilac boughs;     But our one May--our gentlest minister         Of gladness, with the beauty of her hair.             Her place in our still house     Is empty,--and the world is bleak and bare.

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