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Foott, Mary Hannay: The New Year - ZaunköniG - 02.05.2012 Mary Hannay Foott 1845 - 1918 Großbritannien / Australien The New Year With supple boughs and new-born leaflets crowned, Rejoicing in fresh verdure stands the tree, Though weather-scarred and scooped by fire may be Its ancient trunk. So may our lives be found (God leaving still our roots within His ground.) Where gaps of loss and waste show brokenly May each new year that comes to greet us see Branches, and foliage, and flowers abound. Where Fortune, spoiling wayfarer, hath left Unsightly rents, may garlands spring apace. And if, perchance, some pitiless wind hath reft Away what newer green shall ne'er replace, May heaven-light come the closer for the cleft O'er which no tender fronds shall interlace. |