Middletown transcript., 1869-01-02
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MfDD1ETowN TRANSCRIPT,
JANUARY Ist. 1850. - p N-aN

reaisOhtt peals ON WIN gnu, OF sau reirhih,
The Old Year sleeps, to wake no more: the New
Comes with its Joys and cares f-varied hue, i /
Still The same tale by hoary Time is told
The New Years birth, the burial of the Old
We take u etrospect.-What is the past?
A chequered panorama. FIRST and last
Make up the story of the year gone by
Bloom, blossoms, leaves fruit, each and all to die.
Sach is the TRANSCRIPT Of all earthly things
And such the a,oroi that the season brings.
Look on the scroll on which the past is writ
Read from the record-tell us what is ii?
The answers come upon the listening ear,
Telling thas story the bygOne year. -
Full many ship that cleft the ocean blue,
Freighted with treasure, and with stalwart crew,
With youth beauty, bounding hearts wealth,
High hopes and promise, buoyant all with health,
Victim of storms, has sunk beneath the surge,
While wailing winds have sung their funeral
dirge.
The Earth, convulsd with shud ring quake and |
spasm,
Hath opened wide the deep, unfathomd chasm;
While thousands, startled by its awful roar,
Lave looked their last, and sunk TO rise no more,
R.d-handed murder, rapine, lust and war,
Ger the wide world have urged their bloody car;
While gain and greed, dishonesty and pride,
II 4. IL.
While white-robed virtue pitiful and pale,
Hath hid her face beneath her snowy veil,
Waiting and weeping for the coming day,
When Heaven shall throne her in her peerless sway
Loi from IBERIA, land whose honored name 3
Hath linked the story of its knightly fame
To deeds of chvalry in days of yore,
Comes up shout (re-echoed to our shore)
Telling that CASTLE, proud and noble Spain,
Spurns from her limbs the wanton tyrant's chain.
And here, at home, this fair Republic here
What record have we Of the bygone year ?'
Faction and party, with gigantic stride
March through the land in insolcnce and pride,
Flusht with success, and armed with purchased
power;
Let them move on-not long the coming hour
When truth and justice shall resume their sway,
And lift the nation to brighter day.
Lo yon proud dome where once the gallant
Clay,
wcbster Calhoun, Denton had their day,
When statesmen from the East West South and
q I North. .lOH dEs IOI
Pour'd the rich tide Of patriot fsryor forth,
when, towers Of strength, before the land they
S'oSq'sg ssslplubiw
The bold, the brave, the noble and the good
siWhere nre they no~2 we ask--tliey are not there
Where are they now? an echo answers ''where
A pigmy race, the mushrooms of the hour,
Born of corruption, in the land hold power
Sit in that temple once by sages trod,-
Bach upstsrt fancying himscifa god, ~ r.
Make laws, give edicts, spawn of passions wild
And, thus the temple of the nation is defled!
Fierce in their rule and cruel in their rage
But-let them fret upon their little stage,
The time will come, ''the sober, second thought
With retribution for the present, fraught
These demagogucs when hurled from power shal
ersH . sec, = IA r.lrlrnl ..<,7rs.i
East West North, South, the people shall be free
But, yet, 'twere booiless for the carrier boy,
On this glad day our pleasures to alloy
BY wandering off to subjects so diverse,
That time would fail, exhaustless prove his vers,
Here, here at home, we join in thankful lay
To welcome in this joyous New Years day;
II And flour numbers be not bold, nor strong,
Remember tbs he lille Cwriers SOM.
~ Your little carricr boy-who will refuse
To hear his song, or patronise lbs muse?
Who, whom he strives to serve, will now refrain
Il To make their pleasure lis small new year
- gain?
lie might descant on many, variant themes,
Themes that might burthcn Poets, Prophet
dreams;
4 ElYou might not hear, but ere he says farewell
Let him the future of our country tell.
a The time shall come, in coming years shall |
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l,I When, (not in name) our nation shall be free.
When MEN, inspired by patriot truth and zeal,
Shall work together for the common veal;
When Art and Science, by Religion led,
From Siloa brook, from trees of knowledge fe
Shall meet and mingle at ono common board,
% And, in one hymn shall praise one common Lol
When men shall learn the arts Of war no more
When one grand Te Deum, from shore TO shore