Rain and Roses

<h2><SPAN name="TO_THE_NEW_YEAR" id="TO_THE_NEW_YEAR"></SPAN>To the New Year</h2> <div class="poetry"> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="ig"><span class="letra">T</span>HIS morning when I saw you<br/></span> <span class="ih">Looking into my bedroom window,<br/></span> <span class="i0">I thought that I disliked you very much,<br/></span> <span class="i0">For all I could see<br/></span> <span class="i0">You very much resembled other days<br/></span> <span class="i0">Spotless and so wholesome,<br/></span> <span class="i0">With all your tinsel bright,<br/></span> <span class="i0">But, your beauty touched me not at all.<br/></span> <span class="i0">But I decided to put up with you<br/></span> <span class="i0">As one would with strange, unwelcome guests.<br/></span> <span class="i0">I turned you around and about many, many times,<br/></span> <span class="i0">As a child would a new toy.<br/></span> <span class="i0">You were a lovely sight,<br/></span> <span class="i0">And yet I felt a bit depressed,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Till of a sudden I thought<br/></span> <span class="i0">I saw you smile.<br/></span> <span class="i0">Or was it only fancy?<br/></span> <span class="i0">Then I gave you my profoundest thought<br/></span> <span class="i0">For a short while.<br/></span> <span class="i0">And way down in your remotest depths<br/></span> <span class="i0">Great possibilities looked out at me,<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page_79" id="page_79">{79}</SPAN></span><br/></span> <span class="i0">And I thought of all the things you might do<br/></span> <span class="i0">For this restless world.<br/></span> <span class="i0">So I fell in love with you,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Before you were a half hour old.<br/></span> <span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page_80" id="page_80">{80}</SPAN></span></div> </div></div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />