Then hush thee, my darling, take rest while you may, For strife comes with manhood, and waking with day.
To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
As good play for nothing, you know, as work for nothing.
When true friends meet in adverse hour; 'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.
Look back, and smile on perils past.