The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-12-28 00:00:00

A ootiviors NEW YEAR'S sap.

(After Jos. Paul alohter.)
It was N.* Tear's Sys. An oW man pined at Me
wind*, of hie lonely g .s,tur up Smile M the trm.7.
glittering heavens and *a ms on'.- the white mak.
whereas no nee lived so joshes. and erret Isthile. if.
"As a tele that has been tol 4," tereakeitn oml.B ,G 4
Da la plea bad followed its nineteen slower Jr.d"
mem+ int eternity. Amoaest Ow five hundred (Moo.
eouviete no nue was so utterly niimeeb , b-came for therm
"hops het not been left behind." "Th • her daub" Of
iralaudality " had long de.erte.l Ida. His .st lied hen
• crime eo heinous as to admit of a re•censideratm. Ilis
sae mips of release now was Use on whom bre* re
ataud. Out uf his long, meat nil.'. he wombs striating
but error, a a, and disease; a body etrrupte I nod • vont
laid west,. Thonghte of home and bye- ione jays ens.
1 lirowdiog our his bran Ile heed Is the friend. .4 his
youth assembled about the ilmagetic beerth, ourrompi.d
by group. of happy children. He Imam their joyou. Antes
of glee as amid • chorus of crack. is reed out the magi, of
the bon-boa, and hi whispered coedJontially to the friends
Me meat boantiee of Santa C 1.... " Alt! I, too, who
started in the race with greeter alrogitame, might now
be testing • similar pure happiest... Al wi dear permit.
had I but obeyed your precepts, t,..es of a lilt. gteg Joe
might now replan, these scsidiss oration of rent was. II
prated misery white greeter grid tun mA, m • u.. 01 of tad
owe Puppy Nam '
The glorious daro of his youth roman sd bin now
plusatems, and !rid bin back to the' &tenons mews grime
• loving father plowed him on the cc mrotela el life—ooe
andlimasof on as viMt, dralght through labour sad perse-
verance to • Mod of peace, plenty, and light Put hal
through swmt Judoists°. aed the ormiard moirtiselis at
vies to Is abyss of distilling pniron, inhebit d by aiming
snakes, and tined lan vapours, dank, el tomer, trod dark,
Alas I the melee were even now peortraing his mortised '
Wert, sad the poison deem to drip from his league.
Now he knoes wham he M. In his agony he crier nut
piteously—" FA lbw, Oh father, place me owe mcne on the
cross-roads, thst I may choose the other path" Bat his
father and his youth had long &period.
Be mess the corms-lights dance merrily for a moment,
sad Mee suddenly sink into "They or. the
folly," sighed he. A star shoots from the boaveas, and,
glimmering lulls fall, melt. away on the meth. "That
am I.' whispered his Weeding Isms% and the serpeatteeth
of reasons dig further and farther iota his lemur'u
His glowing imagination malaria up belore him los*
of mita walking in their sleep over the house-tor. pad Ilse
windmill raising its arms I, dash them to Mee*. 'Again,
he observes a neglected skull on the ground la {hitchers
boos.; and nob. continues to gem with a terrihie Nonni.
lion, it slowly rime onset; sad by the parer of * eager.
troika which permits visions of sheets an Now Twirl
gni, it arnaksa. by degrees. the form of •
illsiiispepilt
withkis own featurm M Amidst ese coed MAIM
streams forth from *chunk tower downwards mesis
for the Now Tear—like a fur-olf chant
His heart was leeched ;a shoueen4 hot teen burst forth
from eyes and stream downwards to the irons& Tretat
bursting heart escaped the sigh, but only in despair,"Bear
youth rotors; came back again once more."
And It did return, for all had been but a frightful dream.
His dissipated habits, his vioss only had been so dream.
Be was, moreover, on the me of • most trims, Isisink
would have been punished with • lifiebng imprisonment,
But now he blamed God that his, still young, could tarn
beck in the foul by-Weeks of rom. and *availed' the Ptah
which Weds to the land of tie golden harvest of plenty.
Tara beak with him, 0 youth, if thou teardropi with
him his path of armor' foe if one day thou *abut co
out In mem, "Come beak agate, 0 youth," it will not
reborn.

L KAIIIM.