San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1879-02-15
SUNSET THOUGHTS on THE DIiN"
YEak-fS5S.
ny FANNIE SPEAR YorSd.

Thc yeaT fuIT HtOTf 4,
Nor stav tho Cathcrcr Of days allows
Eor lack mr. loss. or. wealth its veal Z csponse'
Tbc year il gone How much oil usefulness
L. ,ccord bcars. how much was done amiss
Imnuissancc cannot undo or change
IRIS done Its influence hath Worldwide range
A pebble small dropped in the ocean btlrs
it, waters vast; the air, and cen the spheres
with fartberest star, IN time, the motion ieeiS'
MS thus our acts; the least are thunder peas
A down the West the sun in grandeur sihKs'
In sadness all my spirits sink. Methihks
The wear lust past, with barren record VIII
TO me a spectre be-a voice nocr sun
A year so full, yet bare, oh hear my VOW
Renewed the year, new Efforts VIII SHOW
Tbou eighteen hundred and seventy-cight!
With much that e'cr will live how Ger repiete'
With onward march-progretsiohs foao' 'ho
And SCIENCE nurse invention, from which starts,
In startling impudencc nthity's tool
Electric light, and other Edison rule.
A lovely voice in Oldcn time, wed near,
Nv travelling far TO get in tymppnum sphere.
Our lady sings in Boston early morn,
Ere night st. Louis hears; nor worn 80:
The lady's voice becomes to scores repentea'
For Photograph no voice has eyer r Gnea ~
Gas companies o'erthrOwn, no wonder US,
They hate the man Of mind the scientist H.
Go ont into the world of letters, where ;,
All light abounds, all fled confusion,s glare,
With word and phrase VIC once had cohtest
hard;
Now siftcd TO its radical rs each word.
Opinion now in every nation turns u,,;..
krainst the word that Richard Grant White
spurns.
With welded pen sensations wake and live
In startling. guise The world must ""sh'
'pwould give -
It's boarded wealth, the real to fling away
In rovelry We live an arc q day.
How much advanced, in narrow twelve month
time,
Humanity is in every land and cline
When stricken Thousands crst for mercy called,
Philanthropists with scenes lnfcrno-scrawlcd,
With pittance here and there for Expense and
time, ".,,
They deemed well done. To-day our stricken
Is swept sy deaths dark angel, and its wall
lis heard on every shore, within the pale
OF every government hall in. every land,
Whence comes response Of wealth and help OF
Accommodating prayer and. sympathizing tear
With haste and zeal. Unprecedented year!
The world grew wiser full an age aday
Despite an lngersoll with intidel fray.
Dear diving wear How full of much besides
Inventions, progress, and scientific strides
How vast thy loss How much for worse than
loss
Has filled our lives! How heavy many GLOSS !!
And When | watch thee fade away, sigh,
"Oh! may fade like thee, ere time try =,
50 filled with woe az year like thee has been. u"
You smile. One heart cannot another ken.
'Tis said that life's drama; but all have not
A tragedy. Warm heart blood split 3 my lot.
Have Ger you seen hopes fade that were your
all?' :,
No strangers then are we. The spirit-call
Hath made us suffer, which doth make us one, -
Soul friendships last, and Heaven on earth s
Some one has said, "Theres nothing true but
Heaven"
These words are true, and yet to earth was given
A principle we call faith-c0ntidence,
And, man, impure and faithess i ether sense,
In this, one element from God doth claim,
And truth is his if worthy of the name.
group of aged men, enc time, began,
Each OF his life to tell Some dangers ran;
Some loss sustained and all came out impaired;
One silent sat. They asked what fate he d
shared.
He said. 1--WE lost my confidence in man."
Oh sad, sad lessi None this sustain, who can,
Tho unrequited, still his tribute give,
Excuses make and foibles all forgive.
You have friend you think no intrigues could
Estrangc, when 10 you see damp intrude
One such know; but of the cause know not.
IT'S hard, reproaching never, to be forgot.
De- "
Dwells ever in narrow cell and rude,
Believe the little and you enlarge the good
OF smaller minds, and very soon they stood
Upon the round from whence you stopped to
them,
While you've gone up. Do good 1t height
ems fame
NV losses with the dear, dead year are not
Like that old mans, but oh SO like my lot
I've seen fraternal smiles withdrawn, and ties
Tween sisters hearts sundered, and hatreds
rise.
Small things, their sources, all to tn winds
I've hurled.
No. Not to tn winds; before that Source |
lay them
Whose promise is "Come 10 me ye heocy
iidta"
But if the dying year holds much of sorrow,
Elysians, too, it holds, from which I'll borrow
For future ills. My wish revoked,
Hand in hand with duty firmly yoked,
Mid sorrows I'll 90 forth mot pleasures t ask.
Expecting little, ills bnt fail their task
Farewell old year; but thine clysians lost.
Our sorrows fade Ills we forget Time past,
Gu, pleasures in the memory last for aye,
Eclipsing all they live, are lived, each day.
In e,cry phase of life, this truth instill:
Forget the bad, the good remember well
Old year thou 'rt gone, but moments once thine
own,
Will live in heart and mind when years are
DOWN
Will live amid the wreck of days all dark,
Sole light to shine when pillows lash my bark
II is truth that happier is all life,
From having had season with pleasures rife
Gases in the desert strand Of time
These days of Joy; they breathe of Eden cline