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THE NEW YEAR'S QUEST, by                    
First Line: Another milestone passed along the road
Last Line: Take up the endless life in a new birth.
Subject(s): Holidays; New Year; Wellesley College


ANOTHER milestone passed along the road,
A forward step into the bleak unknown,
A fresh accounting with tasks left undone,
And loins firm girded for the weary load.
What is this quest which drives us like a goad?
The same long path urges in monotone,
The same long years stretch drearily and lone,
And oft we fail to reap what Time has sowed.
O road that leadeth ever toward the West,
Shall we, at journey's end our burthens lay
On the broad bosom of dark Mother Earth
And fare unto an everlasting rest?
Rest we shall not! But in a clearer day
Take up the endless life in a new birth.





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