Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-01-02
FOR the Herald.
HAPPY NEW YEAR.
BY WILD BIRD.

10 clouds, move soft your fieecy wings;
Re stars of night shout songs
A sister orb new year halls
Among the glitt'ring throngs.
0 mighty consultations sing
The song the angels sang
When God began to build the earth.
And heaven With anthems rang.
A happy new year with its smiles
And hopes Of r.re delight.
A happy new year to each soul
That labors for the right
A happy new year TO the sire
Upon whose hoary head
A century has laid its hand,
Chantif : for summers fed.
And greetings to the mother dear,
Aged and pale and weak;
New hymns of praises for her heart,
And kisses on her cheek.
God bless these guardians who have toiled
With courage prayer and love;
And may they see our daily path
Leads to Christ's home above
Greetings to fathers, hale and strong,
nv look Win untold pride
On children fair and cherished wife,
Bearer than when bride.
To mothers young glad new year,
With JOY and patience fraught,
U let not Gods great promises
Shise on your paths for naughti
O parent, on these shades of time
Your footprints must remain,
And little feet will follow you
To pleasure or to pain.
Where father walked or mother led,
These darling ones will go,
And rest on Jesus arm their heads
Or sink in storms of woe
The hopes that you would have to light
Their pathway through the world,
. let them shine from you. to-day,
With beauty all unfurled.
Speak out your wealth Of precious thoughts.
Thoughts that like music ring;
Thoughts that can paint cares dullest sky
Like mornings ROSY wing,
Then shall our children learn the path
Of wisdom, strength and grace,
Ere we are called from earth away:
And they shall fill our place.
happy new year to the youth,
With hope unfading crowned
And wisdom to escape the snares
That Folly sca.ters round,
who would waste life's golden morn
In Bacchanalian mirth9
And who would strew with shame and thorn
Their pathway through the earth
Come, sign the Temperance pledge, and wave
That banner high and strong.
Go forth to bless and guide and save,
With hope and prayer and song.
Firm as the mountains for the right,
Gentle, and swift to learn;
Mindful that ways of usefulness
Archangels would not spurn
Livs for a purpose noble, good;
Aim high, and feast on truth;
Then shall your minds, expanding, bloom
In neyer-fading youth.
Bright new year to the children, all,
Bearer than words can tell
There's music in their ringing laugh
Our hearts have treasured WE'LL
We clasp in ours their little hands,
And in theiI soulslt eyes
We read how deep Loves passion is
For tender, sweet replies.
And in their fresh and smiling faith,
Their quick, implicit trust,
We learn to take Our Fathers word
And follow with The just
Glad New Year to the many weary ones
That tread life path alone.
Cheer from above for those who weep
For days of sweetness flown.
Forget not, mourner, that this life
Is but the feeting dawn!
Up there. beyond the changing skies,
Beyond the starry lawn,
Above earth's dells of pain and tears,
Above this world of tombs
Christ offers there, eternal life
Where love forever blooms.
A greeting glad to all the world;
From polar wastes of snow,
To tropics bright in fragrant bloom,
In pleasure or in woe,
In palace or in howell dark,
Or ships upon the sea,
Or dungeon OF the prison cell;
Where e'er soul may be.
Fen you who stand behind the bar
And deal out death to men
In wine and beer and nameless drugs,
And laugh at grief again
We wish you, too, glad new year
So full of glory bright
Your trade in death shall pale and fail,
No more the earth to blight.
A year of pure and holy life,
This is our greeting now;
That Gods bright smile may come ard rest
Like garlands on each brow
Faribault, MINI.