Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-01-07
The Curtain Falls.

The Curtain Falls.
Over the sorrow and over the bliss.
Over the teardrop. over the kiss,
Over crimes that blotted and blur'd,
Over the wound of the angry word,
Over the deeds in weakness done,
Over che battles lost and won,
Now at the end of the flying year,
Year that tomorrow will not be hero,
Over our freedom, over thralls,
In the dark and in the midnight the
curtain falls.
Over our gain and over our loss,
Over our crown and over our cross,
Over the fret of our discomfort,
Over the ills that we never meant,
Over the sears OF our self-denial,
Over strength that conquered trial,
Now in the end of the flying year,
Year that tomorrow viii not be here
Quietly final, the prompter calls;
Over it swiftly the curtain falls,
Over the crowds, and the solitudes.
Over the shifting, hurrying moods,
Over the hearths where bright flames
leap,
Over the cribs where the babies sleep
Over the clamor, over the strife,
Over the peagantry Of life,
Now in the end of the flying year,
Year that tomorrow will not be here
Swiftly and surely, from starry walls
Silently downward the curtain falls.
How time flies! Here we are again
with our cherry greeting Happy New
Year! And we must be good to The
New Year, boys and girls of the
Home Circle. We must teach it to
abominate every sort of cruelty, and
to love its fellowmen We must
make it grow in grace, wisdom and
good works. We must stand by it
if it falls into trouble, and we must
keep pace with it when it grows
well. No tagging behind these times
dear young people BE brave, true,
progressive, and thus may the New
Year to you be fruitful and happy
all the year.
If you would increase your happi-
ness and prOlong your life, forge
your neighbours faults. Forget all
the SANDER you have ever heard. For
get the temptations. Forget the
fault-tinding, and give little tho t
to the cause who provoked it. For
get the peculiarities of your friends,
and only remember the good points
which make yol fond of them. For
get all personal quarrels or histories
you may have heard by accident. and
which, if repeated, would seem a
thousand times worse than they are.
Blot ont as far as possible al the
disagreeables of life; they will come
but will only grow larger when you
remember them and the constant
thought of the acts of meanness, Oh
worse still, malice will only tend to
make you more familiar with them.
Obliterate everything disagreeable
from yesterday, start out with clean
sheet today, and write upon it for
sweet memOry's sake only those
things which are lovely and lovable.
As you turn the corner into the
new year. look back a minute over the
road you have been travelling. the
past year 1t seemed a long way
when YOU started out, but it has
been traversed at last. See the line
of that road ever winding on, whist
twisting here and there. Do you re-
member that DOGGY place into which
you strayed? How you promised your
self, in your better moments, I will
turn over new leaf. Have you been
true to yourself? 1t not, once more
before you step out into the pure
New Year, renew your promises to
your better natures. Don t stray,
but linger near the pleasant out
looks, keep near the bits of high
ground where you breathe purer air
and can see affair off Heaven s high
high hills of blue, make the motive
pure, work for the object. Be dill
gent in seeking better ways and in
twelve more short months, take an
other retrospective glance and SEE
how much pleased YOU will be with
yourself, how much more OF good
ness and genuine worth this world
Will seem to possess.
Delight and pathos are ineXtrica-
bly, mingled with the thought of New
Years day, 1t is only a eonven-
tional point of time; any other would
do as well. Every day closes an old
year and begins new one, but for
all that we cannot help feeling that
this day, which is agreed upon thro
out Christendom for The beginning
of new year, is somehow unique
The pathos comes from the review
of the past, and from the sense that
another notch has been cut for us O..
the stick of time Tho dalio,hf ariS