Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-01-03
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In vhora il1a rcof just missed bis bead
Laid, % : short and seaRiy bed,
Il prinier-boy, little QUE
lvho .I,is .press-sork had just begun;
who was the D. III foF all the week,
Apsi.at its cIe &c would take the sheets
Carving them all about the streets.
rfhe day lust gene to hin bad been
de whose toll had too soon come N,
1sor ete the uSorhing-star beaiils Tell ,s'-
Upon the fafni-yard seniinel. - -
lflSile yet die humps threw out theiF rays
t8aidisg his feet Ger sIipfy ways, + ~ IS
Leading him to the narrow STAIR, ii q = e Z
on and up, and on yet--where Ttssa 3iS rs
AilIhe day lOeg58 sEsl lss
81 With arm, not strong o3as
Printers were leading news most riAre.s, siI 50
S,ooriiag he had kiadled q fire. a.lI 3a figs
Swept tue efics, aud abors'dire - l.I q
lind fiIlel his time until again af stsa
The lamps their'light threw ihro the rain vfi
And snow, and sIeet, and frost that fell ,...
Together mingled as if bS spell iio siaa
t, And the brave boy ~ zHs
sfg Thought in his Joy .,,l
Thought with The morrow ali we're well
THAT New Years day would surely bring 8
pleasures, plenty. many thing !,
Esnii 4eng unknown-to him al least
Tbe tbo1ah,s had been an all day fghst-
Nov aexsra worzs had aIl been done,
dsbs morrow belonged to him and fun. ''' 2
Cold and cheerless, not s,range at all Z
Were ii though tired no sleep should fall,
Or that he coaI,l scsfrcs claim repoee;
AID vet be slept, and sweetly too, f'ifp -
With b ,Sly cold Ibis thin Iipsgblue.
Ills dreams as bright as rich ones know,
Though DER his bed lay lines Of snoW,
-fss 5saffss - msvslase EI
Right pleasantly the boy bad slept
Near half the chilly, night away. 1J s.
When over all his roeH' there erept -3
a Iixht. as brilliant as The day, aiff Iati5
And asbeing. enrobcd in white, AS faa :.
Awiasome, pleasing, little spFite, -,..l
Touching his forehead with her hand, ,a4l
Babe him. arise, and see thesight 5se..,..
Ofth' New Years coming in the land !:
Quickly he stood beside his guide,
And together adown the stair
They 90, these two with none beside, :
10 see lies changes pcilcilled fair. = z'
1Ilz cHrEcn AxD rnEATnk
Into church, whose opeu doors,
.9l,s, -a4. And chancel wide,
And glare inside - .
Inyited in, the boy and guide , =.
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Entered the roonls as down IN prayer,
Iu.sfienf prayer, for voice was none g.
Only the nurrnurs to His thFone,)
All the people were bowfng low
JIumbly praying for friead and f0e,
For mercy theifs-- instead Of woe
lFhe boy looked on the dial's face,
Seeing The hands the seconds trace
Onward up to the noon Of nightT-4t M
.Anxieus as ne'er before that night s.s.....
He watched old Times nneaasing fight. $.
AT length, the FIRST stroke Of the bell =,
The. people rose and grandly swelled
5lorinps anthems to Tim above
AYho seRds thu years 10 us IN love.
= And as the song fell on the air
.Away the two went down The stair,
Bent through the streets, lonesome and bar'
Iheir footsteps on and soon the pair
Entered n room, gaudily etir 80 20 .t4.i
With tiBsel gilt aud trappings rare !; iiAt
Where ehe;cest seats, tie menfoe gold, 80
ADi pIainer ones the poor rnfold !; 81
Nv here Sweetest music mid the plays !
Eils the mind Nith,a pleasing maze. Fl
Where scenes of life before the gaze
Memories bring Of other days.
The play was done, the curtain hung
But As the years last moment flung
1lae minute band on the d;al plate -e.
10 where the twelve in sile4ce wait, s,
up rose the drop aud back was seen,
Grouped together, the actors all
The Star the midst, who at their call,
Forward coming with pleasant meiu,
Wished thar the year just coming in
Were what the old one might have been;
And blessings language best may tell 80
When wished by one who cons il well, t's3
With pleasure song and pleasures cheer
@Well he mingled with sorrows drear: sti
Andiclosingr-al the actors bowed, 5.sa
Wasing' their hands, unite liae crowd. 81 &
Whose loud applause rangIHp the dome
AS onward still the two did roaln- eas