A Thought for the New Year

The Westminster

It is a favorite maxim at this season that all things are passing away. And so they are. But the maxim I would adopt is one equally true, and one far less considered; it is that all things are coming back. Personally, I have been more impressed with the return than with the fleetingness of the years. The poet says, —

I never loved a tree or flower,
But 'twas the first to fade away.

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