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The Dying Year.

By Eugene Field

Topics: classic

The year has been a tedious one--     A weary round of toil and sorrow,     And, since it now at last is gone,     We say farewell and hail the morrow.     Yet o'er the wreck which time has wrought     A sweet, consoling ray is shimmered--     The one but compensating thought     That literary life has glimmered.     Struggling with hunger and with cold     The world contemptuously beheld 'er;     The little thing was one year old--     But who'd have cared had she been elder?

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About Eugene Field

Eugene Field (1850–1895) was an American writer and poet known as the "children's poet." His poems "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod" and "Little Boy Blue" are cherished classics of American children's literature.

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