The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-01-01
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THE OLD AND THE NEW YEAR.


On through the glowing joys Of brighto
To gray and brown SO dark and desOlate.
The year moves on TO Times relentless
call:
The slumbering time Of infancy, when
germs
And seeds OF life to be, were resting stlI,
And waiting for the warmth ana dusb Of
Spring
To draw them forth, as welcome harbln-
Of baauteOrs. smiling, gorgeous Summer
time;
Then, Autumn, rich and tsozaing with her
gifts:
All, az belonged to that weird form that
Stands on the threshold of Old Time, to
Yet, what Of countless good hath this year
brought
This old, worn, weary, to.tering, dying
year?
Look back and see; look far and wide. te
The even working of the outward world;
The change ana progress Art and scIenes
hald
To the astonished vision climbing, climb
ing
stun, in revelations OF great Natures laws.
Far-reaching, grasping human intellect
Gods greatest gift TO man! swift-wlnge3,
unclaimed
Roams Ger the world, beyond. above, be.
low,
In search OF something new to feed npon:
Transforming and transmitting aught, to
bear
on purposes concentrated within his
sphere,
OF knowledge deep, Of science or or art.
Where'er the 9 march Of mind " by moral
sense
By wisdom bonn o; God, swayed and con-
trolled,
Bears on the light OF truth, then gladden.
ipg rays
Break through the darkened realms Of
ignorance,
And reach the souls that e'er have slept.
still sleep,
In SupeTstltion's arms, knowing no God.
save objects rudely carved of their device.
So have the life and light of Gospel truth.
AS on the wings of Love that truth mas
flown,
Giving light for darkness unto heather
homes,
Given hope refined to hearts that knew
no hope.
No Joy before; in teachings of the one
Who died for them, and calls them to Him
now.
From sea TO sea, from lana to land still go
The laboreTs from our shores with hearts
To ChristIanize, to trace and WITTY
Each new born beauty in the souls .of
men,
As thus they plant the vineyard of tho
In freedom thus, uutrammeled, and un-
chained
By arbitrary rule of Church or State,
Fres hearts go out, free speech is heard;
and Truth
Proclaimed and honored in our land, gives
force
And power TO every law we own. Basis
OF all our veal, Prosperity and growth,
Is knowledge Of, and faith in, will Divine.
Magnetic power with teIesraphic speed
Conveys from zone to zone the thoughts or
men.
AID we, as one vast family so lin ked,
May talk together though the seas divide.
But why attempt to tell of what we do,
Or claim TO do in this progressive age?
Suffice it then To boast Of what is done;
And what we SIN wiz pan by Heavens
help.
Let not supine security make blind
Our eyes, 10 the necessity to watch
The growth of honor In integrity
To plant the seeds of Truth ia every mind,
The germ OF love draw out 10 flower and
fruit,
And SO to deck our moral garden here,
That Ger the word may spread its OdofOus
sweets
win Yer nd d Il
And so keep pure the gift our fathers
Republic, freedom-land Of Washingi on !
This freedom Of our vast Republic speaks
In voice far-reaching to the listening
world!
And mocks, at effort or Of Church or Stale,
TO trammcl conscience unto death Zen
Old " SO " hath " oecumenicaI"
Bound on the aged brow--a worldwide
call,
By papal eGict, to be crowned by 1nen,-
A felIow-mOrtai, as I5lfat5t5te!
What country Ike to oars? Young IN o ne
sense.
No hoary relicsof & country's pride,
No cIlnging to the chains OF despOt rule.
In lingering love of Kingly governance;
But free, and buoyant in our freedom go
Each day rejoicing in our nations life.
Commerce extended, into lands, till late,
Shut In by mandate ofdespotic power;
Now, open poris, in friendly Interchange.
And nation after nation gives her voice
In grand accord, ia friendly greetings
now.
In plans SO vast, IA all her purposes
so wondrous in their issues and results,
She claims the admiration Of the woridi
as ever flowing veins in creature-forns
So is our " Railway network" Ger the
land,
throbbing. teeming, giving life,
Health, strength, ana power to the Repub-
lie frame,
50. in material. as in mortal things. we
ccme
Closer, and closer, in our line of life.
Praise Godi the blood of heroes has not
marked
n ctUn a0ar, this year OF "69''-
That in the bonds Of Union and OF Peace
high, as resolutions strong,
lave laid the groundwork OF achieve
ments vast,
Which will, in after ages well as now,
Jpeak from Historic page the wondFous
truth.
n the grand requiem for old "G9"
LET reunited hearts North, South, East,
West,
lend forth hymn of swelling harmonies;
Breathing once more the old fraternal love
hat blessed or land, ere yet the demon
dark
raced far and wide his sanguinary track
cathing and blightIng, planting woe IN
stead,
n dire concomitants Of civil war;
o let the nations voice, as the old year
S wrapped and shrouded by the hand OF
Time,