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On New Year's Day he plans a cruise / To Heaven straight-no time to lose! / Vowing to live so virtuously / That each besetting sin shall flee- / Good resolutions wide he strews / On New Year's Day.
A while he minds his p's and q's, / And all temptations doth refuse, / Recalling his resolves so free / On New Year's Day.
But in the long year that ensues, / They fade away by threes and twos- / The place we do not wish to see / Is paved with all he meant to be, / When he next year his life reviews- / On New Year's Day.