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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HOW THE NEW YEAR CAME ABOUT, by DEBORAH EGE OLDS
First Line: On one side the curtain the new year was standing
Last Line: She mounted the throne and he passed into rhyme.
Subject(s): Holidays; New Year
First Line: On one side the curtain the new year was standing
Last Line: She mounted the throne and he passed into rhyme.
Subject(s): Holidays; New Year
On one side the curtain the New Year was standing,
Awaiting the toll of the twelve o'clock bell.
With hand on the inside the Old Year was waiting,
Till he, too, should catch the first sound of that knell.
The bell tolled but softly, the curtain was parted;
The New met the Old on the threshold of time.
He gallantly bowed and their hands met an instant.
She mounted the throne and He passed into rhyme.
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