<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial;">New Day’s Lyric<br class=""><br class="">May this be the day<br class="">We come together.<br class="">Mourning, we come to mend,<br class="">Withered, we come to weather,<br class="">Torn, we come to tend,<br class="">Battered, we come to better.<br class="">Tethered by this year of yearning,<br class="">We are learning<br class="">That though we weren’t ready for this,<br class="">We have been readied by it.<br class="">We steadily vow that no matter<br class="">How we are weighed down,<br class="">We must always pave a way forward.<br class=""><br class="">This hope is our door, our portal.<br class="">Even if we never get back to normal,<br class="">Someday we can venture beyond it,<br class="">To leave the known and take the first steps.<br class="">So let us not return to what was normal,<br class="">But reach toward what is next.<br class=""><br class="">What was cursed, we will cure.<br class="">What was plagued, we will prove pure.<br class="">Where we tend to argue, we will try to agree,<br class="">Those fortunes we forswore, now the future we foresee,<br class="">Where we weren’t aware, we’re now awake;<br class="">Those moments we missed<br class="">Are now these moments we make,<br class="">The moments we meet,<br class="">And our hearts, once all together beaten,<br class="">Now all together beat.<br class=""><br class="">Come, look up with kindness yet,<br class="">For even solace can be sourced from sorrow.<br class="">We remember, not just for the sake of yesterday,<br class="">But to take on tomorrow.<br class=""><br class="">We heed this old spirit,<br class="">In a new day’s lyric,<br class="">In our hearts, we hear it:<br class="">For auld lang syne, my dear,<br class="">For auld lang syne.<br class="">Be bold, sang Time this year,<br class="">Be bold, sang Time,<br class="">For when you honor yesterday,<br class="">Tomorrow ye will find.<br class="">Know what we’ve fought<br class="">Need not be forgot nor for none.<br class="">It defines us, binds us as one,<br class="">Come over, join this day just begun.<br class="">For wherever we come together,<br class="">We will forever overcome.</span><div class=" aGBdT _4EzTm Igw0E IwRSH eGOV_ qF0y9 pjcA_" style="margin: 16px 0px 4px; padding: 0px; border: 0px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-box-align: stretch; align-items: stretch; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-box-direction: normal; flex-direction: column; flex: 0 0 auto; position: relative; align-content: stretch; justify-content: flex-start; -webkit-box-pack: start; -webkit-box-flex: 0; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial;"></div><div class=""><span class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Amanda Gorman</span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial;"><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial;">Hear Amanda recite this: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/tv/CYEpCgxBTAf/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosam&stream=top" class="">https://www.instagram.com/tv/CYEpCgxBTAf/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosam&stream=top</a></span></div></div></div></body></html>