Chapter 72 1865-1866

[Published in Good Words for March 1, 1868 as a decorative page, with an accompanying full page plate by T. Dalziel. The lines were never reprinted.]

I stood on a tower in the wet,

And New Year and Old Year met,

And winds were roaring and blowing;

And I said, 'O years that meet in tears,

Have ye aught that is worth the knowing?

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