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PROLOGUE, by                    
First Line: Midnight, december thirty-first
Last Line: The curtain rises! The play is on!
Subject(s): Boredom; Ignorance; Ennui; Dullness; Stupdity


Midnight, December Thirty-first,
In a blue coat buttoned with stars,
In an ermine stole and a crystal crown,
With sleighbells girt on his motor-cars,
Rides to a din and hullabaloo, --
Out of the Old year, into the New, --
Stands in the footlights and lifts his glass
To his best resolve and his oldest friend, --
To his highest aim and his dearest lass,
And a good time, world without end, --
Drains the flagon, and then is gone!
The curtain rises! The Play is on!





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