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Sonnets - II - The New Year

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With supple boughs and new-born leaflets crowned,     Rejoicing in fresh verdure stands the tree,     Though weather-scarred and scooped by fire may be     Its ancient trunk. So may our lives be found     (God leaving still our roots within His ground.)     Where gaps of loss and waste show brokenly     May each new year that comes to greet us see     Branches, and foliage, and flowers abound.     Where Fortune, spoiling wayfarer, hath left     Unsightly rents, may garlands spring apace.     And if, perchance, some pitiless wind hath reft     Away what newer green shall neer replace,     May heaven-light come the closer for the cleft     Oer which no tender fronds shall interlace.

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