TO **** ON NEWYEARS DAY

1. 
   (Image by Lady Clementina Hawarden)
   
   A new years welcome lovely maid
   
2. Awakes the poets song
   
3. Be not of moral truths afraid
   
4. Nor deem the lesson wrong
   
5. Though newyears still their welcomes bring
   
6. & hails thy blooming hour
   
7. & on the green lap of the spring
   
8. Leaves thee its fairest flower
   
   
9. The withered year had youth & pride
   
10. As thy unclouded joy
    
11. But the today though deified
    
12. To morrow shall destroy
    
13. & sweet as is thy lovely bloom
    Of mingled white & red
14. A days in waiting yet to come
    
15. Shall find that beauty fled
    
    
16. Bind not thy heart to things so frail
    
17. A worshipher of pride
    
18. Let choice of better things prevail
    
19. & meaner ones deride
    
20. As fair as is that lovely bloom
    
21. Thy witching youth puts on
    
22. A frowning year is yet to come
    
23. Shall find its blossom gone
    
    
24. The withered year saw many flowers
    
25. As fair as thou art seen
    
26. That now are lost to suns & showers
    
27. With blossoms that have been
    
28. Then live from pride & folly free
    
29. & wear an angels bosom
    
30. & when the last new year shall be
    
31. Live an unfading blossom 
    
    MP III 476