January 2, 2019
Dear Subscriber:
Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of
view. The theme for this week is New Year’s Day.
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A Happy New Year poem about the morality of wishing
those in misery well:
Happy New Year! To those who will have none,
A wish that knows too well it cannot be.
Perhaps one ought not wish so futilely;
Perhaps one ought, that such not be alone.
Yearning is the price one pays for hope,
Nor can one hope unless one would endure.
Each futile wish makes paradise more sure,
Widening the world's supernal scope.
Yet there are those who find such wishes cheap,
Easy substitutes for sacrifice.
A wish for good is more than merely nice,
Restoring winds that stir the unguent deep.
© by Nicholas Gordon
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This week’s theme: New Year’s Day
1/2: Happy New Year! To Those Who Will Have None
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