New Year's Eve Midnight Now the bells are tolling- A year is dead. And my heart is slowly beating the Nunc Dimittis to all my hopes and mute yewnings of a y...

Assessment: JAMB UTME - Literature In English - 1978 Subject: Literature In English

Question 1 Report

New Year's Eve Midnight
Now the bells are tolling-
A year is dead.
And my heart is slowly beating
the Nunc Dimittis
to all my hopes and mute
yewnings of a year
and ghosts hover round
dream beyond dream

Dream beyond dream
mingling with the dying
bell-sounds fading
into memories
like rain drops
falling into a river.

And now the bells are chimming-
A year is born.
And my heart-bell is ringing
in dawn
But it's shrouded things i see
dimly stride
on heart-canopied paths
to a riverside
The mood of the above poem is

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