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What can be said in New Year rhymes, / That's not been said a thousand times?
The new years come, the old years go, / We know we dream, we dream we know.
We rise up laughing with the light, / We lie down weeping with the night.
We hug the world until it stings, / We curse it then and sigh for wings.
We live, we love, we woo, we wed, / We wreathe our brides, we sheet our dead.
We laugh, we weep, we hope, we fear, / And that's the burden of the year.