The New Year + 

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. + 