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can ye look up .on the past and fed no sor_ row
now, That thus ye sing so joy.ons-ly and
smiles li%ht ""ev- ry bro«r,O h.if ye can be blithe
and gay, the song troul gai.^ly on And the
burden be the New Year's come arid the Old Years
eOne.And the burden &.c
The old man gazes on the mirth, he smiles not like the rest;
He sits in silence by the hearth, and seems with grief op-
press'd.
He sees not in the merry throng, the child who was his
pride ;
He listens for her joyous song — she is not hy his side.
But scarce a twelvemonth she was there, and now he is
alone ;
Yet still ye sing the New Year's come, and the Old Year's
gone;
Yet still 70 sing the New Year's come, and the Old Year's
gone.
Dance on! dance on I be blithe and gay, nor pause to think
the while !
That ere this year has passed away, ye too may cease to
smile ;
For time in his resistless flight brings changes sad and
drear,
The sunny hopes of youth to blight, with ev'ry coming year.
But still be happy while ye may, and let the dance go on,
Still gaily sing the New Year's come, and the Old Year's
gone,
Still gaily sing the New Year's come, and the Old Year's
gone.