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 , Old Year, you were a teacher stern In aim, and in your method most severe, Yet every lesson you have made us learn Will shape the story of the coming year; How those first precepts of our country's youth, Though we have heard they were an empty phrase, Are still to many men a living truth By which democracy must guide her ways; You taught us, not our friends and foes alone, But how friends hinder, and how foes may aid; You taught us what ourselves had never known— Our strength; you taught us not to be afraid; But most you taught that freedom has a price, And comes, but comes not without sacrifice.