I

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

For I would see the sun rise upon the glad New-year.

It is the last New-year that I shall ever see,

Then you may lay me low i' the mould and think no more of me.

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