The Dying Year

The Tour i 11 rneset m&ntls ciad, and liood of Witii tangledg wtnd-blown halr, and Wa'ikíwitliunwllHnget' ■'■ 'ook Krom all the pomp and eptendor it ' lately Lisomeold mn,wltb tot ten nu step and slow' .Mul ayes grown dim wlth mista oï many Uight Laavi the home bis gladaome youtli did know. Iluggiug and achlng grief, too deep for i So the ald year wlth trembliug, cold-nimbed haTid,' Ciuthcrs lii tnttered mantle round hls shivering forra, Bows his snow-covered head before the coming storm, And goos to join the tiaupcred royalty of Nowhere land.