The year has been a tedious one–
A weary round of toil and sorrow,
And, since it now at last is gone,
We say farewell and hail the morrow.
Yet o’er the wreck which time has wrought
A sweet, consoling ray is shimmered–
The one but compensating thought
That literary life has glimmered.
Struggling with hunger and with cold
The world contemptuously beheld ‘er;
The little thing was one year old–
But who’d have cared had she been elder?
(Eugene Field)
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