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MORTAL: 
“The night is cold, the hour is late, the world is bleak and drear; 
Who is it knocking at my door?” 
THE NEW YEAR: 
“I am Good Cheer.” 
MORTAL: 
“Your voice is strange; I know you not; in shadows dark, I grope. 
What seek you here?” 
THE NEW YEAR: 
“Friend, let me in; my name is Hope.” 
MORTAL: 
“And mine is Failure; you but mock the life you seek to bless. Pass on.” 
THE NEW YEAR: 
“Nay, open wide the door; I am Success.” 
MORTAL: 
“But I am ill and spent with pain; too late has come your wealth. I cannot use it.” 
THE NEW YEAR: 
“Listen, friend; I am Good Health.” 
  
MORTAL: 
“Now, wide I fling my door. Come in, and your fair statements prove.” 
THE NEW YEAR: 
“But you must open, too, your heart, for I am Love.” 
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Wishing all readers of Thursday Thoughts 
Good Cheer, Hope, Success, Good Health and Love in 2016 
….on this, the last Thursday of 2015! 
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