Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1902-01-01
THE CLOSING YEAR.

George Prentiss chiefly remembered politician ana
editor, wit 1t is generally by the pre- ent
generation that he poet ability the
lowing Is peculiarly appropriate present time
'Tis midnights holy silence now
Is broodng like gentle Spirit DER
The still and pulseiess world Hark! the winds
The bells deep tones swelling-ts knel
Of the departed year. No funeral train
Is sweeping past-yet, on the stream wood
With melancholy light the moonbcams rest
Like pale spotless shroud; their air is stirred
AS by mourner's sgb-and yon cloud
That floats still and pacidly through heaven,
The spirits of the to stand
Young Spring, bright Summer, Autumn's solemn form,
And Winter with his aged ocks-and breathe,
In mournful cadcnces that abroad
Like the far wndharps wild and touching wall
Gone from the Earth for
'Tis a time
memory tears within the deep
stil chambers of the heart spectre dim,
Whose tones like the wizard voice Time
Heard from the tomb of Ages. points its cold
And solemn finger to- the beautiful
And holy visions that have passed away
And left no shadow of their loveness
On the dead waste of life. That spectre lifts
The cohinlid of Hope, and JOY, and Love-
And bending mournfuly above the pale
Sweet forms that slumber there scatters dead flowers
Ger what has passed to nothingness Tie year
Has gone and, with it, many glorious throng
or happy dreams. Its mark is each brow
Its shadow in each heart, In it's swift course.
1t waved its sceptre the beautiful
And they not 1t laid it's pald hand
pon the strong the naughty form
Is fallen, and the flashing eye is DIM
1t trod the hall revclry where thronged
The bright and joyous and the fearful wall
OF stricken ones Is heard, where ersthe song
And reckless shout resounded. 1t passed DER
The battlepan, where sword and spear and shield
Flashed in the light of mdd dday-and the strength
or serred hosts is slvered grass
Green from the soil carnage, waves above
The crushed and moudering skeleton.
And faded like OF mist at eve;
Yet ere 1t melted in the vewless air.
II heralded its millions to their home
In the dim land dreams.
Renorseess Time
Fierce Spirit Of the Glass Scythe what power
Can stay him In his silent course melt
His iron heart pity? on, still
He presses ana forever. The proud bird,
The condor of the Andes, that
Through heavens unfathomablc dep MS. or brave
Tho fury of the northern hurricane,
And bathe his plumage In the thunlers home,
Furs his broad wings at nghtful, and sinks down
TO rest upon his mountaineering, but Time
Knows not the weight of sleep weariness,
And nights deep darkness chain to bind
His rushing plnion. Revolutions sweep
Oer Earth like troubled visions DER the breast
or dreaming sorrow; cities rise sink
Like bubbles the WATER fiery isles
Spring blazing from the ocean, and go back
10 their mysterious ayerns; mountains
To heaven their bald and backcned cliffs and bow
Their tail heads the plain; empires rise
Gathering the strength Of hoary uries,
And rush down like the Alpine avalanche,
Startling the nations and the very stars
Yon bright and burning bazonry OF God
Glitter awhile in their eternal depths.
And, like Piead, loveest of their train,
from their nd
To darkle In the trackless void yet Time
Time the tomb.budcr, holds his fierce career,
Dark stern all pltess and pauses
Amid the mighty that his path,
TO slt and muse, like other conquerors,
UpOn the fearful ruin he has wrought.