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First Line: The year, sweet wife, is on the wane
Last Line: Good-night, old year, good-night!
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Marital; Marriage; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THE year, sweet wife, is on the wane—
The happy-hearted year,
That brought us only tithes of pain,
And rounded sheaves of cheer.

Beside the glowing embers we
Need envy no one's pelf;
Content am I to partner be
In firm of "Wife and Self."

Swift glide away the last low sands,
Fast fades the hearth-fire's light;
We face the world with wedded hands—
Good-night, old year, good-night!





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