Poetry
... patt.rp. - SO N NE T. CLOSE, close the book-the book of the old year I Enough I 've read- -enough recorded there i Sorrow, and death, and sin, on many a page (In dismal characters) mine eye engage. Bright names now carved on monumental stone- Names of the wise, the kind, the good, the gay,- Who were my joy on the year's primal day, Here, as my loved associates are shown. And thou, old year, ...