The Hawaiian gazette., 1893-01-03
NEW YEARS EVE.
Ring Out the Old Year. Ring in
the New.
Written for the GAzETTE.l

Written for the GAZETTE
Toll, toll the bell for the year that is
gone,
Toll, toll the bell for the souls passing
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
Furrowed with sorrows, and pallid
n 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 60 down to
the tomb
Lost in a night of impierceable gloom.
Toll, toll the bell for the year that is
Hoary with grieving and heavy with
groan;
Oh, that the true from its grave may
uprise,
Fairest white blossoms to cherish ana
a prize.
u Toll out the old year, ring i'll the new,
5Chaunt we the psalm OF a brotherhood
true.
Love, Truth and Justice a harmony
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
Love,
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 beneticent 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 holocaust lie,
Winging to God in an agonized cry.
Knowledge profound by her labor is
Sarets of earth, and the stars, and
the sun;
This the grand motto from first of her
youth
God in all Nature, and God is the
Truth
Fling out her banner then, fling it out
wide,
Boast of our manhood, our glory, our
B1luC1
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 all We,
Travail of one is the source of all
birth,
FThe world anxious mother, our we'll
beloved earth.
Hands across, brothers, for brothers
are we,
Distant our countries DER land or by
sea,
Hope of humanity points the grand
plan
sOne vast Republic, one Brotherhood
- Man!
Hands across, brothers, who labor to
NSurcease of sorrow, and surcease of
v pain;
Work is the highest best worship we
l. give,
b Z who best labors he truest doth
i've.
Hand across, brothers, a bridge I
4uilding true, I
Here on the verge of the old and the
new,
Lay the foundations where fool never s
trod,
The rock of all ages, Eternal One, '
God
Build to the plan of His all-arching- S
blue, +
Pillars of justice appearing the true, /
TButtressed in faith, and on hope of /
the good,
Strong against evils tornado and '
4 flood. t
Firded with arms that are mighty for L