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NEW-YEAR'S EVE.

xii.

She'll find my garden-tools upon the granary floor:

Let her take 'em: they are hers: I shall never garden more:
But tell her, when I'm gone, to train the rose-bush that I set
About the parlour-window and the box of mignonette.

xiii.

Good-night, sweet mother; call me before the day is born.

All night I lie awake, but I fall asleep at morn;
But I would see the sun rise upon the glad New-year,
So, if you're waking, call me, call me early, mother dear.