Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1859-01-05


Nav you, dear readers, be happy today
Though life is so deetinS, and pleasure SO cheat
ting,
that we are oft meeting with accidents here, !
Soovld Fate seek to dish you, oh then may the
issue
10 what We now wish you, A HAPPY NEW
YEAR Home Journal.
To-day the Carrier.boy his greeting brings
To each kind friend; the New Years charms he
sings.
Come goddess Hope, my humble muse inspire,
Grant me spark of true poetic fire;
Visions of dimes inspire my humble verse,
And quarters too, enough to fill my purse;
20 may my song be worthy of the theme,
Aud my bright vision prove to be no dream.
Hail, New Years morn-the happiest of tho
year
Though Winter reigns, and Natures face be
drear,
To-day our hearts are happy, and as light
AS lovers fond sparkling on Sunday night;
joy glsddens hearts oppressed by grief and care,
And brows where twelve-nonth long sat grim
despair
Zen sorrows child forgets his grief awhile,
anu IOUuu LIS A4p Piays sweet COMMITMENTS
smile.
Today will meet around the festive board
Long severed friends-in many home is heard
An old familiar voice, though absent years,
Whose tones are welcomed by mothers tears;
The young and old come forth-a happy throng,
And join in cheerful converse. dance, or song;
And hsppicst there amid the joyous scene,
>Solt eyes look love'-you all know what mean.
away
Dali Cares a stranger, then let's all be gay;
Happy come forth, men, maids, wives, matrons,
all;
And statesmen aa grave who spout in Congress
"An o'en the wretch whose wand'rinss never
knew
The Worlds regard-that soothes, though half
untrue"
Old maids and bachelors be young cncc more,
And loving. and gallant as in days of yore.
AT twelve o'clock last night old Fifty eight
Drew bis last breath, and yielded to his fate
Without sigh, and on the northern blast
Was boinc Gway into the silent past,
To slumber with its buried hopes and fears
Its grcfs its smiles, its laughter, and its tears.
He brought us joys which often made us ble,t
The griefs he brought we're doubtless for the best
Of"honors lost forever" say no more
And "broksn hopes" dear friends. a. one
ignore
The world is all before you-a bright land
Strewed with choice gifts of Heaven on ev'r
hand
Gifts which only for the grateful heart
Por to such only Heaven its gifts impart;
And thus tie grateful man, though poor and ole
Tastes joys denied the miser mid his gold.
The past is past the futures in the van,
And Hope comes forth, the constant friend
man,
And thus she whispers :--"sigh not nor repine
For earthly honors know if they were thine
Thou would'st not then be happy; know tn
bliss
Makes not her home in such world as this
Though drear this world, the promise still
For grief below eternal bliss in Heaven D
Eternal bliss what rapture thrills the soul,
Fen 1t the thought she yet shall reach tie &c
Where sorrow never entels; where no
Finds dwelling placc-and sorrows never dare
To cross the threshold; joy there reigns suprer
Fulfilling thus our fondest brightest dream:
soothing hope, our sorrows to beguile,
Eternal bliss in Gods eternal smile.
Then welcome New Years morn. farewell {
past;
The year to come will soon excel the last
Glowing with youth. he just has made his boV
See Fortunes garland bound around his brow;
Then bid him welcome-he will not depart
Without bestowing on the grateful heart
His choicest Distinguishing which will
Only disclosed when death the soul sets free.
BY song is ended now--and so adieu;
Of course my luck, dear friends, remains wi
you.
I've faithful been, and brought you news in til
Better l know than all this jingling rhyme;
The cold and selfish heart can never know
The bliss that springs from rendering others SC
Then, would you taste true bliss without allc
At once reward the faithful
CARRIER-BOY.
Ebensburg, January /. 1859.
ROBERT HALL was once asked what