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Did I ever show you this? I wrote it when I was eighteen. Here's a rare explanatory note from me: this sonnet is about bellringing. There are eight monosyllables in each line for the sound of eight bells ringing rounds; "four to two" in the fifth line is a called change; "look to" is the command to start ringing; "stand" is the command to stop. There are other buried references.

Look to your Lord who gives you life.
This year must end as all the years.
You live here in the vale of tears.
This year brought toil, the next year strife.
For too, too soon we break our stay.
The end of things may be a birth.
The clouds will fade and take the earth.
Make fast your joy on New Year's Day.
When dies a friend we weep and mourn.
When babes are born we drink with cheer.
But no man mourns when dies the year.
When dies the age, may you be born.
Your death, your birth, are close at hand.
In him we trust. In him we stand.

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