I

by Alfred, Lord Tennyson · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880
Part of New-Year's Eve

If you're waking call me early, call me early, mother dear,

For I would see the sun rise upon the glad Newyear.

It is the last Newyear that I shall ever see,

Then ye may lay me low i' the mould and think no more o' me.

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