PPB: The New Year / Emma Lazarus

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George Dance

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Sep 9, 2018, 1:40:05 PM9/9/18
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The New Year, by Emma Lazarus

Not while the snow-shroud round dead earth is rolled,
      And naked branches point to frozen skies.—
When orchards burn their lamps of fiery gold,
      The grape glows like a jewel, and the corn
A sea of beauty and abundance lies,
                      Then the new year is born.
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