Enlighten Radio Presents
"The eve of New Year's Day -- Left the Old Year lost to all"
Poets John Clare, Richard Wilbur, Edward Hays, Howard Thurman take us out with mixed feelings
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Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case
This Episode Recorded 12/27/2023
he Old Year Out
by John Clare 1793 – 1864
The Old Year's gone away
To nothingness and night:
We cannot find him all the day
Nor hear him in the night:
He left no footstep, mark or place
In either shade or sun:
The last year he'd a neighbor's face,
In this he's known by none.
All nothing everywhere:
Mists we on mornings see
Have more of substance when they're here
And more of form than he.
He was a friend by every fire,
In every cot and hall--
A guest to every heart's desire,
And now he's 'nought at all.
Old papers thrown away,
Old garments cast aside,
The talk of yesterday,
Are things identified;
But time once torn away
No voices can recall:
The eve of New Year's Day
Left the Old Year lost to all.
This poem is in the public domain.
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