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New Year's Day

By Algernon Charles Swinburne

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New Year, be good to England. Bid her name     Shine sunlike as of old on all the sea:     Make strong her soul: set all her spirit free:     Bind fast her homeborn foes with links of shame     More strong than iron and more keen than flame:     Seal up their lips for shame's sake: so shall she     Who was the light that lightened freedom be,     For all false tongues, in all men's eyes the same.     O last-born child of Time, earth's eldest lord,     God undiscrowned of godhead, who for man     Begets all good and evil things that live,     Do thou, his new-begotten son, implored     Of hearts that hope and fear not, make thy span     Bright with such light as history bids thee give.

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Algernon Charles Swinburne

About Algernon Charles Swinburne

Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) was an English poet known for metrical innovation and bold themes. His "Atalanta in Calydon" and "Poems and Ballads" challenged Victorian conventions with their musical intensity and controversial subject matter.

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