The Dolores star., 1922-12-29

In the Rocky Mountain NaIlonhl IaFh
Rides the December moon in blue
black sky
To light the Old Year out. the New
Year in.
Tahosa-"vaney in the Mountain
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vi All trimmed about with lofty snow
clad peaks.
Is dazzling with new-fallen snow Its
cup
Brims over with the silv'ry radiance.
Across Tahosa Valley looms Longs Peak
King of the Rockies" with its tow'ring crown
Atop its monstrous dark, grim precipice
A-gltter in the food of silver light.
Behind rise The Twins to timberline
Recumbent in silhouette If carved
By the chiseI of the Master sculptor
A part and parcel of n perfect whole
Planned by the Master Architect himself
Perfected through the ages by His will
That with sheer beauty makes the heart to ache.
The hours pass on The moon sinks and is gone.
Myriad stars that blaze like beacon fires
Take up the watch the weary moon has quit.
The Old Year passes out; comes in the New
Without sound, token a sign.
There is no hint of life. Can it be true
The will shine again and day come back
And life leap in the glad green spring once more
And Time grant unto another year:
And now is staged with ceremonious pomp
The recurrent miracle Of the dawn
In setting worthy of the Masters art,
With glories worthy of the glad New Year:
Behind The Sisters grows pearly glow;
The Kings o'ertOpping crown glows ruby red;
Low-lying clouds in The Pass the south
Are shot with gold; the skyline of the pines
Against their glory stands raggedy
The rim of great golden disk thrusts up
Above the silhouetted Sisters crest.
Deer, Meadow, Meeker Lady Washington.
Battle, Lily and Estes Cone change white
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green.
The Sisters, the sun mounts in the sky.
Call back their shadows from the Valley floor.
breeze wakes up and dances forth to help
The trees shake of their burdninG robes of white.
crested jay fits In shelt'ring pine.
A snowshoe rabbit goes sedntely past
And makes the first mark on the untracked snow.
Across TnhoSa Valley smoke goes up
Blue chimney-s that tells of kindIed hearth,
With family astir and life and love!
And there stands Longs-uuchanged, unchange-
able.
Now know glad spring shall come again,
Summer time, harvest time, another year
And so is born to US this glad New Year,
Nineteen Twenty-three ammo Domini-
"Tn the Year of Our Lord" the Son of God,
Who taught man, do as ye would be done by"
Who died upon the to save mankind.
There is old saying and wise: Let the dead
past bury It's dead :" Its wisdom, however. lies
largely In what it really rather than in what
1t actually says. For burial does not mean both
burying and forgetting And 1t should not What
the adage means is this
lets turn over new leaf on New Years dav
1923, and try to make better looking page than
did in 1927
There is said to be no new thing under the
sun" Certain it is that digging up records
nowadays that show human nature to have been
about the same in 1900 B. c. that it Is now So
doubtless man has been making New Years reso-
lutions ever since there any New Years day
And doubtless he has been breaking them lust as
regularly. And doubtless the cynics and the pes
simists and the professional jokers have been
laughing over the performance through the ages
Nevertheless, this recurring New Years per
forInance is lot more than merely the material
for jest. In fact it Is of the things that
keeps alive the faith In human nature and the
hope that the world is progressing year by year
toward better things.
There are, of course, many foolish people who
live only to eat drink and be merry. And there
If they get it. But most people believe in
a future life and always trying, often vaguely
nnd half-unconsciously, to live the kind of life
that to them fit to survive. Hence their
New Years resolutions. Many man in his heart
IN New Years day would be, with Robert Brown
Ing,