The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1872-01-04
NEW YEARS ADDRESS.

NEW YEARS ADDRESS
Toll out the Old Year. Ring in the New
Ring her in cheeriIy, hopefully too
Brings she veal or brings she woe,
Well launch her BOSOM undaunted, unmoved
By wounds Of the past, menacing foe
And steer course undismayed.
Toll out the Old Year Anguish and despair
Have strewn her way, and marked her path
With memories hap'ly
Unnumbered ills, in every cline,
Have scanned the earth with pain,
But weep most the ruthless blight
That scourged our own domain;
Where demon-tongues Of forked flames,
Lappng our land around,
Fair homes destroyed and laid them waste
In ashes the ground.
For miles on miles the fiery blast,
Swept with cruel speed,
Forest and plain alike ablaze,
Hamlet and fertile mead
Unsated still, the fendish power
mighter victim craved,
And seized the gorgeous Prairie Queen"
By deep lake waters laved.
Seized her with sudden grasp and hurled
Her boastful glory down
O'erthrew her vaunted palaces,
Her beauty, wealth. renown;
And in the seething cauldron cast,
Mingled with earthly dross
The warm heart-blood of human life,
To consecrate the loss
Misery Agony Ring the knel
OF this mournfu dying year, Tracked,
For the dead she has piled, and the souls she has
In rearing this holocaust drear!
Toll out the Old Year and yet more gently strike
For DER the smoke Of CHASTITY sacrifice,
A perfumed cloud arose:
The incense sweet of loving ministries,
To those distraught with woes. .
Oh heaven-born boon of christian sympathy,
ar faoho oYYohor
Re-echoed back from friendly distant shores;
And marshalng teemng hosts
OF bounteous gifts, and overfOwing stores,
With generous succor sped,
To cheer, and clothe and feed, and vivify,
The sufferers well-nigh dead.
Astounding love, eclipsed abounding pain,
Hallowng the fearful blow:
And e'en shadow cast to dim the glare,
That sins foul records show.
So not with grief alone
We toll thy death, Oh, Year!
For noble deeds, of noble hearts,
Redeem thy sullied fame;
And deck with loving images
The memory of thy name.
Again let us toll, but with sturdier stroke,
For arm it nerved with the thrilling thought,
That we sound now the doom of corruption
Where knavery regned, where judges bought
Where fraudulent schemers audaciOusly taught,
That to steal was grand speculation
Now, knavery quails, and to justice is brought,
And the fraudulent schemers with anguish fraught,
For they steal not without molestaton.
So strike the bell with a ringing knell,
Triumphantly sounding redemption
For the people uprose with unanimous yell,
Regardless of party, determined to que,
And uprooted the foul domination.
All praise to their prowess let honesty reign
Henceforth through our borders; again
May viiany rule in our nation.
Now sadIy-and softIy-and boldIy-we've toIed
As some shades of remembrance arose in review.
Not many with joy can eer bury the past,
For rapture unmixed is the portion of few.
The phantoms we follow, with glory bedecked,
By the false hues of distance elude our embrace
Or haply reach them, and grasp at their form,
Their beauty dissolves, and we're Knocked in
So, content let us close our account with the year,
We booked many sins, much grief and cheer
As a nation we stand, unrivalled, and bold,
The envy Of monarchies effete, and old.
The Young Giant Republic, they view with amaze,
As it strides to supremacy-glorious, ablaze
With the flashing Of genius, and enterprise vast,
The briance Of wealth. and of strength unsurpassed
And the harrassed domniOns forgetting their age
And the cankers and ills, that corrode and enrage,
Their deerepit and tottering forms seek to heal
Their disorders, by aping with indiscreet zeal
All our new-fangled notions and fancyng in vain
That OUR garb of success will hide pain.
Will an old dame feel young in the robe of maiden?
VIII the NAME Of Republic, infuse new leaven?
Yet every struggle in fair Freedoms noble field,
Remembering, too, that youth its pitfalls hath, lpah,
And youth like ours that upward, onward
To widening, spreading influence, the ages roll;
Must tread ways honor TRUTH and WORTH miss
the goal.
Then ring we in the New Year cheerily
Manfully hopefully! watchfuIy!
Bravely resolving, fair deeds to uphold
Foul wrong to boldly withstand:
Probity prizing highly than gold
Strict truth, than houses or land.
And we ring in the New Year with faith,
That her gifts may with gladness be fraughti
For the future, when veiled, teens with hopes,
Whose fruition with joy is inwrOught.
But individual good or ILL.,,
Must sink now in mightier theme!
A youthful town, with lofty views
Appears upon the closing scene,
And thus, in rhyme propOunds her news.
All gayly we ring our Tifin bells
To the tramp of the iron horse!
From east and west, from north and south,
He hitherward tracks his onward course;
And threatens to carry his lines,
From Seneca through to distant confines.
Then hail to Chicago, and Omaha!
To Pttsburg and Baltimore too!
We proudly accept their cOnuectiOn-
To all may large profits accrue.
And ring out our bells, too goodly peal,
To cheer on our Board of Health,
Who at last have 6re1red a strong decree,
That shall add to city's wealth.
Last year they talked and smoked, and planned;
This year they going to act!
They'll straighteu the creek, remove the dams,
And drain cut the swamps-that's fact
Those odorous holes, where pestilence breeds,
They've resolved to fill up without fail.
What care they for scorn from the owners thereof,
When the meanings Of sickness prevail?
So avaunt foul malaria! Hygiea reigns