In The Menu That Dawn Brought With Her

In the menu that Dawn brought with her For to-day New Year's Day there was the special and the not so special: Special rang the tunes of the church bells different from other holidays: overdue after all! New Year's Day! But the old city dressed as it had dressed the day before and the day before that and before that for centuries old in the memories of ancient times: and the people who survived into the New Year survived either as flesh or blood or else as ghosts the former in the morning streets the latter in the Night swarmed to the old town in hordes and shrouds and there rose high a long sad lament an All in One, and One in All to the sad heavens and stars.