New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-01-01

, Tribunes racy rich and rare,
Spicy as the fragrant East.
! News from every attude,-
Iceland 10 the Isle of Fire; =
5 Pearls of knowledge freely strewed i
5 CaSket, ample as desire!
) Now another year has fled !
All its 'ollies, all its fears,
; Like a rushing stream have sped,
Down the Cataract of years.
: Let me STAY thv transt-Ilme!-
: Tell us all that thou hast done =
{ In every age, in every CLINE,
{ Show the trophies thou hast won.
( Slow the chime of midnight tolls;
s While the listening stars grow Paei
{ Onward the last moment rolls;
Swells its requiem on the gale
{ Ancient! thy power invoke!
; Pause a passing moment mere;
{ Come. ere falls the final stroke;
Ghostly 1Imc--appear, appear
IRA Spirit bccoes risi5e he approaches the Garner ana
gn-cs inteniy upon h1m attcr me ma"Nn y q "sss-
5 meria.-Holding an hOur glass IN has hana ne pre-
mares 10 turn ii at the last srokeof Twere,---anaMe
; Carrier fills into q magnetic sleep
sec'st thou?
}CARRlER-I see an ocean without shore
; thousand fragments strew it DER!
stately ship goes down;
And thousand mariners drown
4 star shoots through the sky;
An arrow finds its mark
The flowers Of summer die;
And all the earth looks dark!
the strange visions that thus appear,
Behold the last of the dying year!
}CARRIER-I see strange land afar
Dire diScord assails my ear;
see the red torch of war;
And a trumpets blast hear!
! A crown on a fair Young brow;
But it sits uneasy ere;
The proudeSt are doomed to bow,
And the bravest hearts despair
}SprRIr-Alas that ruin must rush again,
Der the rayaged vineyards Of sunny Spain.
$CARR1ER-A City that seems world;
On an Isle amid the sea;
; And many flag untured,
On mast andtower there be.
oueenly form sits down,
On throne OF matchless might,
And her royal smile and irown,
Are an Empires Day and Night
merry, and strong, and wise
Ruin beneath thin disguise!
{CARRIER-Now Journey on rapid wings =
Prisons and palaces, pomp and wo,
Thousands Of beggars and scores VI kings,
Meet together whereer go
Courtly Fair in their festive halls,
Glitter in Jewels, and silk and gold;-
Neighbors to penury's naked walls,
Ravenous hunger and biting cold
Here despot in splendor shines;
{ With fortress and hireling guard secure;
5 Yonder his dark Siberian mifes;
And here the huts OF the abject poor.
}SpIRlr-Away and leave the revolving show,
ca world Of men in tyranls hand y
Over the now we go
Swift for Freedoms native land
}CARRIER-" Home sweet home !"-yet pleasure
and pain
; Mingle in every cup OF Earth,
Sweet are The hills of my home again.,
Sweet the delights of the social hearth
Blu, ah, there is gloom on my Country's brow,
Sorrow has silenced her mirthful voice,
The crest of her Eagle is dropping now,
And her patriot bosoms no more reJoice
country is mourning in deep dlsmay.
The guiding hand of her gallant CLAY,
His cheering voice. and his counsel wise,
Are lost TO the hopes of her Enterprise.
But host of stern, true hearted men
On every hill, in every glen
From her starry banner Shall wipethe stain, n
And thy County shall be herself again" q
Her Champion still in his home aiar,
Shall be her unchanging polar star,
AND HER TRiBuNES SHALL FEARLgSsLY LEAD
THE WAY,
To SMOOTHER SEA AND A BRIGHTER DAY.
5 Our annual duty, kind patrons is done
s Thro the centralized news OF the year we have run
We've quoted the nations of Europe to show
5 How little of berty's blessings they know
; And the glory of contrast our nation displays
) Even now in her gloom of political days
And long be it ours thro' all changes to bear
A contrast as pleasant
As that IF the present,
And THE TalBuNEs best wish or HAPPY NEW
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