Happy New Year

I will let Ella Wheeler Wilcox* in her 1909 poem wish in the New Year 2012 to you all, she does it better than I can! Wishing you all Happiness, Joy, Peace and Love.

New Year: A Dialogue
Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1909)

MORTAL:
“The night is cold, the hour is late, the world is bleak and drear;
Who is it knocking at my door?”

THE NEW YEAR:
“I am Good Cheer.”

MORTAL:
“Your voice is strange; I know you not; in shadows dark I grope.
What seek you here?”

THE NEW YEAR:
“Friend, let me in; my name is Hope.”

MORTAL:
“And mine is Failure; you but mock the life you seek to bless. Pass on.”

THE NEW YEAR:
“Nay, open wide the door; I am Success.”

MORTAL:
“But I am ill and spent with pain; too late has come your wealth. I cannot use it.”

THE NEW YEAR:
“Listen, friend; I am Good Health.”

MORTAL:
“Now, wide I fling my door. Come in, and your fair statements prove.”

THE NEW YEAR:
“But you must open, too, your heart, for I am Love.”

*Ella Wheeler Wilcox, American Poet, 1850 - 1919. Photography courtesy of the website: http://www.ellawheelerwilcox.org/photos.htm