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The New Year

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Be welcome, year! with corn and sickle come;         Make poor the body, but make rich the heart:     What man that bears his sheaves, gold-nodding, home,         Will heed the paint rubbed from his groaning cart!     Nor leave behind thy fears and holy shames,         Thy sorrows on the horizon hanging low--     Gray gathered fuel for the sunset-flames         When joyous in death's harvest-home we go.

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"Be welcome, year! with corn and sickle come;..."

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