Weekly Trinity journal., 1868-01-04
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Another wave, which sparkling danced along
Ripping Times rapid stream, has blended with
Th' uhsounded, shoreless ocean of the Past:
The last faint moan breathed by the dying year
Yet tremulous fills the air its spirit still
10th to depart, lingering sadly near, Gwell.
Waves with wan hand a mournful, mute fare.
Ere it takes up its tedious pilgrimage,
Joining the myriads of things that were,-
Speeding towards an unknown, shadowy shore,
Lash'd by oblivious black and sullen surge.
And now, when silence regns with sway su-
preme,
And all the air a solemn stiffness holds,'
The tide of thought flows back upon the soul,
And recollection brings a crowding throng
OF memories, which thickly cluster round
The dead Years sepulchre, and fearful mourn
Over the hopes forever buried there.
Sorrowful, sad the grieving heart recalls
The many proud ambitious, high resolves,
Rosy imaginings of wealth and blissful love !;
Romantic dreams Of nights to be o'ercome
BY tireless tread along the path to Fame,
Inspiring thoughts Of chambers vast explored
By patient toll within the spacious dome
Where Science dwels, and with unerring tongue
Upholds the mysteries of earth and heaven.
All the brilliant visions which spontaneous
spring,
Born of luxuriant life within the mind:
The bygone year beheld them bud and bios
som, but alas I
Saw fortune how averse, how fate denied
How disappointment's cruel, blighting frost,
With black ming breath, chilled Fancy's fairest
flowers.
The Old Year came burdend with good and
On some it showered with liberal, generous
Earth's choicest gifts of fortune, fame and
Some He bowed with weight of ill,
Sorrow and toll, black ruin, grim despair
From many homes the Old Year greeted full
of happiness,
Rose on the gale, ascending high to heaven,
Loud lamentations boisterous, chidiug voice
Sobs torn from breaking hearts, despair's des-
ponding wall
The New Year comes amid the chime of bells,
Cheerily ringing, pealing loud and clear
The social circle, linked in friendships chain,
Once more assembling, grasp the outstretched
hand
Friend welcomes friend, who answers back again
In kindest speech affection fond can frame.
And with full hearts to friendships teachings
trne,
With cordial wishes of prosperity,
Couchei the lip, and speaking in the eye,
Drink deep to other days in generous wine:
Music and dancing fill the happy hoxrs,
When youth and beauty hail the coming year.
Though Nature sleeps in winters chill embrace,
And natures feathered songsters all are mute,
Or in some far-of sunny, southern cline,
Fill all the scene with untaught melody
Yet welcoming another New Years morn,
The voice of song floats on the frosty air,
Gushing from youthful hearts from sorrow free,
And childhood's joyous voice, in merry glee,
Shouts happy welcomes to the passer-by.
We greet the first day of the year again.
We trim our sails for fortunes tickle breeze,
Guiding our bark oer life's uncertain sea,
Straining vision we wistful peer
Into the futures fOgs with keen latent
To spy fancy-painted fairy shore.
Where hopes bright beacon radiant shines
afar
And as we sail o'eI watery wastes unknown,
With all our freight of hopes and fears aboard,
May we avoid misfortunes wrecking shoals
But with our guardian angel at the helm,
With smiling skies, and with favoring gale,
Voyaging DER the ocean of success,
Safe disembark that delightful strand
Where plenty reigns, and worth holds highest
place.
And as we're floating down Times ebbing stream
Let us with songs of thankfulness and praise,
Gather the fruits aad flowers along its banks
And if, perchance, with hasty hand we pluck
Some passion-aOwer, wildly blooming there,
Pilling with fragrance some sequester' d spot
May we not find serpant lurking near,
Coiling to strike with swift, malignant spring,
Madd ming the pulse with yenom'd, ranking
fang,
Or twned among the fairest petals, mar
Its rarest hues with vile, disgusting trail
And when the inexorable hand of death
Points to the grave, and his imperious voice
Bids us descend and dwell forever there,
silent inmate of its gloomy halls,
Where crawling worms their wonted revels keep,
And DER decay hold maddest carnival
May not despair's dread terrors shake our souls,
But with a calm, serene, abiding hope
OF life eternal in brighter sphere,
Chdke conhding, close our eyes lhues
And when the last changing, shifting, varying |
Cast by lifes setting sun fade in the west,-
When tn immortal, disemboded soul,
Hovers upon the verge of worlds unknown,
Plumng its pinions ere it wings its fight,
A shining pilgrim through eternity,
May the good angel who records above
With radiant glance and smile inefable,
Undo the jewel'd clasps of Gods own book,
And with an eager hand and diamond pen
Dripping with liquid gold, inscribe therein
In never-fading. living characters,
These words of man-the highest praise 10
heaven
" LIFE OF DUTY DONE ~
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