MORTAL:
“The night
is cold, the hour is late, the world is bleak and drear;
Who is it
knocking at my door?”
THE NEW YEAR:
“I am Good
Cheer.”
MORTAL:
“Your voice
is strange; I know you not; in shadows dark I grope.
What seek
you here?”
THE NEW YEAR:
“Friend,
let me in; my name is Hope.”
MORTAL:
“And mine
is Failure; you but mock the life you seek to bless. Pass on.”
THE NEW YEAR:
“Nay, open
wide the door; I am Success.”
MORTAL:
“But I am
ill and spent with pain; too late has come your wealth. I cannot use it.”
THE NEW YEAR:
“Listen,
friend; I am Good Health.”
MORTAL:
“Now, wide
I fling my door. Come in, and your fair statements prove.”
THE NEW YEAR:
“But you
must open, too, your heart, for I am Love.”
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