New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-01-06

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To their Patrons
JANUARY /, 1866.
The day has come when all of years mature,
Review the Past, and draw their balance sheet
iGanst Time for this, VIC crcdit-and for that
debtor still he's held, perhaps with lien
Given upon the golden days. his hair,
The Young New Year, shall rule with sovereign
sway. tI.r
He who bears this kindly greeting to your door,
And who through all seasons widest changes,
Fer birds have sung their tuneful matin hymn,
Or the great ety's heart commenced to pulse
With waking lte hath unto its threshold
Brought the earliest tidings of the great worlds
Deed, although son of toll, is given
To feel the golden cord that binds
In sympathy the entire human race,
And thus to comprehend the hopes and fears
That swell their hearts, be they OF high or low
degree. .
When, deep and solemn midnight bells
Ring out a requiem and coronation peal,
heard, or seemed to hear, the woes and wants,
The aspirations and the earnest prayers 5
OF hosts rush upward in the starlit night
Unto the throne of God Like the wall
Of sweeping winter winds, they filled all space,
And yet in syllables articulate,
A representative voice proclaimed a-.aa r.
The need from which each fond petition sprang.
In accents that were all devoid
Of tutOred grace, or studied lore, -u.,
But with the el0quenee that feeling gives,
The spokesman OF the toling poor poured forth
A wild appeal against the fireless hearths,
The scanty raiment, which but half suficed
10 shield them from the winter's nipping breath;
And the proud mans contumely,h y which mingled
With their hard earned bread like gall.
The widows plant, and the young orphans cry
We're the soft minor of this cadence grand,
And asst sunk and sweed upon the air,
The mind pictured half celestial band
Who g'ring here, forsaken and forl0rn,
Serene in faith, still fondIy leant on him
Whose promise unto them had once been given
With commentator to the charity
OF all mankind. Anon and fitfuly,
As if in doubt the right might still be theirs,
To call in suppliance on an outraged God,
For criminals a plea went humbly FORTH
In tones so wildly sad it seemed that groans
From prison cells were its embodying sound.
1t said, or seemed to say, 1--WE have sinned,
And are no more worthy to be thy sons.
But Thou, who looked in kindness from Thy cross,
On two, who suffered from the laws dread bann,
And of thy prosecutors, cried,
Forgive them, for they know not what they do,
Inspire all upright human hearts, we pray
With thy divine compassion, that once more,
With reformation and repentance true,
We yet may mingle with the busy throng,
Unscoifed and unproscribed of men.
Afar of came a cry, 50 low and soft
1t scarce might reach unto the heavenly gates,
That told the wrongs of wretched Magdalens,
Whose wicked gauds heaved over breasts that
knew
A viper's sting, remembering
Their lost innocence.
OF weary heavy-laden souIs varied
as tic burdens which they long had borne
Yet prayed TO cast aside, and bury with
The now expiring Year.
The morning star arose
glittering jewel in the New Years crown,
Sending bengnant rays across the gloom,
Which hitherto was like the darkness
OF some black despair.
Then did that solemn, sobbing vail,
Like to the sweep of winter winds,
Change its drear note. and swelling full ard high
Attain choral anthems lofty strain,
And surge in biIlows Of harmonious sound,
Charged with eXuting JOY and thankfulnees,
From those who knew fruitiOn's bliss
In granted prayers.
Then was there heard acknowledgment of gifts
Beyond the merits or the hopes of those
Who found success had smiled upon the toll
OF the Old Years reign-the glad delight
FUf those who saw the azure-tinted bow
OF promise flung across the coming time
And the heartfelt satisfaction Of the humble crew
| Who craving little, find content with less. -
| Then rose the fathers recognition deep
| ORAL the goodness that had spared to him .
| The stawart sons, whose lives were periled oft,
On many battle field of countless dead.
| Then swelled the fond mothers heart in rapture
| Der her tender babes, whose beauties
| Expanding greet the glad New Year,
| Even as flowers the diurnal sun. '-~''
| Then in an ecstacy imagination oft had traced,
| To give toretaste to the lovers heart,
| The young husband casped his new made wife
| Unto his manly breast and breathed vow
| To cherish her, and honor Him who sent ~
| This blessing bright to dwell beside his hearth.
| Then went forth friendships prayer for him hi
loved
Then rose the patriots thanks, that tempesttosset
| His countrys bark had weathered the wild storm
And with dauut!ess Captain on the PROV,
Steered once again towards waters calm and safe
+! Then rose grateful pean far and near,
| For all those common blessings, which too oft
We seem, but only seem, to count as naught,
And lacking which our lives were misery fraught
| The Day Star paled-
| (Contfdenaial.) The Carriers rounds begun,
In advance of his prototype, the Sun,
And could no longer dream or listen
When the silver streaks commenced to glisten
| In the east;
So jotted down by twinking taper
| My vision
This address, and bring it with the paper,
Wishing to old and young most hearty cheer,
And many, many happy New Year.
| of, I.slh