We'll Write a New Idyll This Year - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

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We’ll Write a New Idyll This Year

 

The old order changeth, yielding place to new,

And God fulfils himself in many ways

 

-Idylls of the King, “The Passing of Arthur,” 8-9

 

Janus faces both ways, and so do we

A last, lingering look at the year that was

And then a turn to the year we must meet

Marching to it through Janus Pater’s doors

 

We will most remember about the past

Our friends whose pilgrimages came to their ends

We joy in the remembrance of their happiness

Their stories and songs, their unfailing kindness

 

Janus faces both ways, and so do we;   

But now our friends, our happy friends, they see

                                                           Light

 

 

And the new sun rose bringing the new year

 

     -Idylls, “The Passing of Arthur,” 469