January Monologue from Festival Plays: One-Act Pieces

From Festival Plays: One-Act Pieces by Marguerite Merington

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When the old year dies at midnight’s chime Behold, I appear! The eldest and youngest child of Time, The Happy New Year! Two faces I wear, like the Roman god At the temple door, Surveying the path by pilgrims trod, And the path before. Backward looking, and looking ahead, Like that god in Rome; We read the roads we have yet to tread By the roads we’ve come. Then, Janus-wise, with our double view, Let us bear in mind To bring no faults to the year that’s new From the years behind; Only good counsels by which we live, Good thoughts and good cheer, For that is the way to get and give A Happy New Year!

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