Mexico weekly ledger., 1878-01-03
CARRIERS ADDRESS.
BY c. g.

In the gloom last midnight thousand bells
Stirred the heart mankind with the saddest Of knes
For the Year was departing old, weary and worn,
Of his prowess and grandeur and beauty all shorn.
Decrepid and fainng, he tnttered away;
He had won his last triumph and lived his last day.
So they rang the wild bells till they startled the night
And his requiem toed with fendish delight
The year gone brought veal and brought woe;
Through the cycles to come it must ever be SO;
The gods have willed ever that pleasure and pain
Upon just and unjust should descend as the eain
Kind Cerus has poured from her plentiful horn
Abundance Of wheat and abundance of cern;
And she gave a curse wee drop OF old rye
To help us to mansons-not built in the sky.
Aeolus, the storm-kng, the mighty hand
With cyclones and whirlwinds has smiten the land,
And many hurricane blast hath he blown,
And forests and cities in dust hath he strown.
Fierce Neptune, the lord blue rolling deep,
With the besom of wrath did the sweep;
And many sailor hath gone to his rest
With the weight Of the pillows expressing his breast.
But the Rainbow of Promise still bends in the sky
And tells the great God of Mercy is nigh
Though it rains and it storms, and blows dread blast,
His bountitul watch care abides to the last
Old Janus, fling open the portals of Time;
Ring in the New Year, swelling chime upon chime;
Ring glad welcome from urret and spre
To hail the New Year in his chariot OF fire.
Coumbias guardian! Saint Jonathan dear
Oh, make stronger in virtue and truth,
And pardon the sins of our national youth
Send again from the midst of a tuelar sky
A soul q Lu Washington, dauntcss and high,
To restore good name on the face Of the earth,
Now object OF rdicue banter and mlIth.
Then hail. Sons of Freedom, a Happy New Year!
From to ocean, let carons clear
Proclaim the evangel of Peace and Good Will,
While the chorus of joy shall the nations heart thrill
IoT,,o,
Her desncs mould with a mercifu hand,
Till men of all creeds upon land and on
Shall bless Thy great name that Columbia Is free.
Let the bitter-sweet past surcharged with tears
Roll backward, still backward to ion with the years,
That have vanished for aye the echoless shore,
Whence Pilgrims return neTermore neyernore.
And purge Thou soil of the fratricide blood
That drenched it all DER sin-cursed flood;
And halow, pray, the sod spots where the brave,
The Blue and the Gray made their peace in the
From the dark thirsty earth, sanctfed by their gore,
When they sank to their sleep mid the battles wild roar
May the lilly white Rose and Forget-me-Not bloom
And stand as the sentineIs fair of the tomb.
May North South, Vests East
Join their hands and their hearts in the
And atune their glad voices in grateful accord
In singing anthem of Praise to the Lord!
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Happy Year! Happy Year! To patron and friend!
May pleasure ecstaic your moments attend!
May fairies your pathway with roses bestrow,
And the Heavens smile you wherever you 60
While joy-bells pealing and on land,
Your Carrier is bowng, with cap in his hand,
Fondly hoping that you 'shell OUT the new dimes,
10 set his young heart in accord with the chimes
In the days that past, he was punctua and true,
AS the sun in his coming, to wait upon you-
With the LEDGER excellence free fearless sheet,
With the latest of and its dress clear and neat.
In the days yet to come, he will bring it on time
But he asks you to-day for the joy giving dime
For money, though cursed as the root of all evil,
Has charming effect a Carrier-Devil!