Rosemary and Pansies

<h2><SPAN name="A_NEW_YEARS_HOPE" id="A_NEW_YEARS_HOPE"></SPAN>A NEW YEAR’S HOPE</h2> <div class="poetry"> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">I dare not hope that in this dawning year<br/></span> <span class="i0">I shall accomplish all my dreams hold dear;<br/></span> <span class="i0">That I, when this year closes, shall have wrought<br/></span> <span class="i0">All the high tasks that my ambitions sought,<br/></span> <span class="i0">And that I shall be then the spirit free,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Strong, and unselfish, that I long to be.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">But truly do I hope, resolve, and pray<br/></span> <span class="i0">That, as the new year passes, day by day<br/></span> <span class="i0">My footsteps, howsoever short and slow,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Shall still press forward in the path they go,<br/></span> <span class="i0">And that my eyes, uplifted evermore,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Shall look forth dauntless to the things before;<br/></span> <span class="i0">And when this new year with the old has gone,<br/></span> <span class="i0">I still may courage have to struggle on.<br/></span> <span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page_15" id="page_15">{15}</SPAN></span></div> </div></div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />