A New Year's Burden

A New Year's Burden Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1 A New Year's Burden Dante Gabriel Rossetti Novello, Ewer & Co. L. Berners London 1877 1 DGR Commentary

Introduction

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Textual History: Composition

Textual History: Revision

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A NEW YEAR'S BURDEN, SONG, THE WORDS WRITTEN BY Dante Gabriel Rossetti, THE MUSIC COMPOSED BY FLORENCE A. MARSHALL. Ent. Sta. Hall. ~~*~~ Price 4/- London Novello, Ewer & Co. 1. Berners Street. W. and 80 & 81, Queen Street. E.C. <hi rend="c">A NEW YEAR'S BURDEN.</hi> Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Florence A. Marshall. Along the grass sweet airs are blown, Our way this day in Spring. Of all the songs that we have known, Now which one shall we sing? Not that, my love, ah no! Not this, my love? why so! Yet both were ours, but hours will come and go. The grove is all a pale frail mist, The new year sucks the sun, Of all the kisses that we kissed Now which shall be the one? Not that, my love, ah no! Not this my love? heigh-ho For all the sweets that all the winds can blow! The branches cross above our eyes, The skies are in a net. And what's the thing beneath the skies We two would most forget. Not birth, my love, no no, Not death, my love, no no, The love once ours, but ours long hours ago. but ours long hours ago.