The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-12-31
NEW YEARS EVE.
King Ont the Old Year, Ring in
the New
Written for the DAILY ADyERr1sEk, !


on,
Toll, toll the sadness, and toll, toll the
mirth
Laid side by side in the wide lap OF
Earth.
Toll, toll the bell for the sad closing
year,
Furrowed with sorrows, and pallid
with fear;
SO much of purity, beauty and grace
Find in Earth's bosom their last rest
ing place.
Toll, toll the bell for the year that is
fed,
Toll, toll the hopes that have died
with the dead;
Oh! that the false shall 90 down to
the tomb
Lost in a night of impierceable gloom.
Toll, toll the bell for the year that is
flown,
Hoary with grieving and heavy with
groan;
Oh! that the true from its grave may
uprise,
Fairest white blossoms to cherish and
prize.
Toll out the Old y, ar, ring in the new,
Chaunt we the psalm of brotherhood
true.
Love, Truth and Justice harmony
grand.
Ring it out, clang it wide over the
land!
Hands across, brothers, who fight for
the Cross,
Stand by your banner, whatever the
loss;
This of your faith will the issue por-
tend,
Lo, am with you all unto the end"
Think how brave Latimer died for His
sake,
Cranmer and Ridley, who burned at
the stake:
Think how brave Luther in fierce
days of yore
Nailed a true gospel to Wittenberg's
door!
Doubt you at grief tide your Father of
Lift eyes of faith to the portals above,
For as the sunlight dies down with the
day
Cometh His starlight to point you the
way.
Hands across, brothers, who claim for
the right
Of Reason to shed her benefieent light,
Fear not to nail up your flag to the
mast,
Stand firm for Science, stand firm to
the last.
Not on her affairs the blood of one
slain,
Thickening night with the smoke of
red rain;
Not on her affairs a holocaust lie,
Winging to God in an agonized cry.
knowledge profound by her labor is
won,
Secrets of earth, and the stars, and
This the grand motto from first of her
God in all Nature, and God is the
Truth
Fling cut her banner then, fling it out
wide,
Boast Of our manhood, our glory, our
pride,
Uttermost ends of the earth shall
attest
Truth the victorious Science the
blest
Hands across, brothers, why part upon |
creeds
War against evils loves unity needs,
Not in one faith all of goodness Is |
bound,
Truth on SO many white SUBMITS is
found.
Hands across, brothers, for kindred
are we,
Hands across, sisters, for sisters allye, |
Travail of one is the source OF all |
birth, !,
The world anxious mother, our wdl-
beloved earth.
Hands across, brothers, for brothers |
are we,
Distant our countries DER lana or by |
Hope of humanity points the grand
plan Il
One vast Republic, one Brotherhood
Man!
Hands across, brothers, who labor to
Surcease of sorrow, and sorcea8 Oh
Work is the highest best worship we
give,
He who best labors he truest doth
live.
Hands across, brothers, bridge |
building true,
Here on the verge of the old am the
Dew,
Lay the foundations where fool aeVef
trod,
The rock of all ages, Eternal One,
God
Build to the plan of His all-arcaing-
blue,
Pillars of justice appearing the tue,
Buttressed in faith, and on hope OF
the good,
Strong against evils tornado and
flood.
Hirded with arms that are mighty for
right,
Bolted with wisdom, and bracet Win
His light,
Lengthwise and breadthwise, 'eloW
and above,
Clinching all fast with the rivsts oi
Love.
Here on the verge of the old ara tue
Build we bridge for all time run
ming thro', Z.