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Penny's Poetry Blog's poem for New Year's Eve:
New Year's Eve, by Charles G.D. Roberts
[...]
A strange voice out of the pallid heaven,
Twelve sobs it utters, and stops. Midnight!
Tis the ominous Hail! and the stern Farewell!
Of Past and Present in passing flight.
[...]
https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2022/12/new-years-eve-charles-gd-roberts.html
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