The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1903-01-14
The Old Years Reflections.
To the Editor IF the Dispatch:

1 x do6 W0c 1Cots c0s0 AStS NAN sSS~
| a few withered punches, which were
visible by the snow and ice being
melted sway. There he lay glaring
| in the electric lights unnoticed by
the rafting wheels of the vehicles
| and the on busy, rushing crowd that
throng the thoroughfares of the busy
msrts.
Oh, how lonely and forsakened!
Away from the seething tides bear
ing on their bosom an innumerable
number of heavy laden ships and
steamboats, away from the clicking of
the magnetic wires as they flashed
the news to anxious hearts in distant
parts; away from the rumbling noise
of the palace cars and the shrill,
of the locomotive.
Near blythe clear, pure and spark
ling water of q lovely babbling spring
eurgglsd out from the bill side, trail
ing l~zily along and almost lost to
view by the many little icicles that
chung close together from the moss
covered rock over jetting the lovely
stream as it took is mesndering
course on toward the brimming river,
Above rude and desolate couch of
the dying year, the mourning pines
and signing trees spead their lesfsss
and ice covered branches as much as
to say, eve will gladly shelter thee if
We can," the low soft breezes moaned
sympathectically by his side. as
sweetly as tenderly as if it had b'en
some loving one of the fair sex. The
air was keen and the winds chilly
and piercing, the barking of watch
dog, startled by some passer by,
sounded long and re-echoed az
though from the very border of the
glen.
As I stood gazing upon the border
of that lovely glen I beheld an al
most innumersble throng of spirit
ual beings. Among the great num-
Der I beheld the four seasons; yea,
and the twelve months were there,
accompanied with 6fty-two weeks
made up Of three hundred and sixty
Eve days and nights. There I saw
nearly nine thousand hours, more
thar half . million minutes and
thirty million seconds. I saw the
seasons dcnned in their robes of va
risgsted colors-white, green, yellow
aud purple. The twelve months were
bedecked with crowns of diademe,
adorned with q fllet of silver net
worked about their forehesds. The
weeks-6fty-two in number-wore
seven hued girdles iabous them,
adorned with crescents of shining
pearls with beautiful, brilliant clasp.
The days bore on pinions the very
image Of the great sun, while the
Fights held sparkling star glitter
ing on every sceptre. The hours,
minutes and seconds each held
miniature diamond chonometsr in
in keeping time of the Aeeting, gold
en- moments as they passed.
As he lay there pale and weak, sur
rounded by his immense host of de.
scendsnts, he spoke and said, 'see
they COME"
As he spoke a pale, long drawn
light, as though the Milky Way
was descending earthward. Yes,
it descended through the thin, keen
mist and rested like a dim glimmer-
ing light on the smokey and dusky
range of the distant haze of the hills.
I arose and receded a 'sw PAGES from
what appeared the coming of one with
the glory Of an angel and yet with the
appearance and countensnce of a
younger brother-The New Year. As
he bent over the humble pallet, the
grass and the icicles, and frosted
trees and the misty hills all glittered
with golden hue. Behind him I
beheld fair seasons, and months, and