A Doubt

Many boons the new years make us

    But the old world’s gifts were three,

Dove of Cypris, wine of Bacchus,

    Pan’s sweet pipe in Sicily.

Love, wine, song, the core of living

    Sweetest, oldest, musicalest.

If at end of forward striving

    These, Life’s first, proved also best?

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