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In fashion reflective, with plaint or invective, / We view in perspective the year in eclipse, / The duties neglected, the faults uncorrected, / The blunders, the failures, the slips! / We note with depression that painful procession / Of lapse and transgression which held us in thrall, / The sins of omission, the vaulting ambition, / The pride that preceded each fall! / Regretful, alas! we are loth to remember / The good resolutions we made last December!
The keen politicians who cherished ambitions / To better conditions for sons of the State, / Make private confession of wasting each session / In fruitless and futile debate; / The Peer of position regards with contrition / That past inanition, so hard to resist; / The social reformer grows sensibly warmer, / To note opportunities miss'd; / While Cabinet statesmen still seek (somewhat sadly) / For patience to suffer the Suffragettes gladly!