Around the year with Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

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It is done, all the year could do for us.
    Its mixture of shadow and sun,
Its smiles and its tears, its hopes and its fears,
    Its labors and duties, all done.
We stand face to face with the new year,
    Nor know what it hides from our sight;
God grant that it be kind to you, and to me,
    That it lead us in ways that are light.
                                                                  The Old and the New.