The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1922-12-29

Is dazzling with new-failen snow; lts
cup
Brims with the sllv'ry radiance.
Across Tahosa Valley looms Longs Peak,
king of tile Rockies" with Its tow'ring crown
Atop It's monstrous, dark. grim preclpice
A-gtter In the food Of silver light.
Beind rise The Twins 10 timberllne.
Incumbent In silhouette as IL carved
By the chse OF the Master Sculptor
A part and parcel OF perfect whole
Planned by the Master Architect himself.
Perfected through the ages by Ills 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 II be true
The sun will shine again and day come back
And life leap In the glad green spring moro
Ana Time grant unto us another year?
And now Is staged with ceremonous pomp
The recurrent miracle Of tile dawn
In setting worthy of the Masters art
With giories worthy OF the glad New Year:
Behnd The Sisters grows a peary glow;
The Kings oertopping crown CLOVIS ruby red;
L"w|ying clouds In The Pass TO the south
Are shot with gold; the skyline OF the pines
Sgninsf their glory stands ra.gedy out.
The rim OF great golden disk thrusts up
Above the silhouetted Sisters crest.
Deer. Meadow. Meeker Lady Washington,
Hattie. Lily and Estes Cone change white
For rose tints Wooded slopes don black for
green.
The Sisters, as the sun mounts In the sky
Gail back their shadows from the Valley floor
breeze wakes up and dances forth TO help
The trees shake off their hurd'nng robes OF white
crested jay nits In a shelt'ring pine
snowshoe rabbit goes scdately past
And makes the first mark on the untrackcd snow
Across Tahosa Valley smoke goes up
1uue chmney-smose that tells Of kindled hearth
With family astr and life and Lowell
And there stands Longs-unchanged, unchanre-
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--
Elm the Year of Our Lord" the Son OF God
Who taught man. do as ye would be done by"
Who died upon the cross to mankind.
There Is nm old saying and wise: let the dead
taa bury It's dead" Its wisdom. however lie.
tarsy In what II really means rather than In what
actually snys. For burial does not mean both
baryhg aud forgetting. And Il should not. VIVA,
the adage means Is this:
Lets turn a leaf ON New Years day
ia2a and try to make better looking page than
did In i9eai"
Tlaere Is said TO be mo new thing under m,
sun Certain II Is that digging up recor,Is
nowadays that show human nature to have been
about the same In 400 II. G. that 1t Is now So
doubtless man has been making New Years r,ssA
buttons ever since there was any New Years day
And doubtless he has been breaking them lust as
regularly. And doubtless the cynics and ia, nes.
simsss and the professional Jokers have been
laughing over the performance through the ages
Nevertheless, this recurring New Years per
farDan,e is lot more than merely the material
III is az
keeps alive the faith In human nature and the
hotr thni the world Is progressing year by year
toward better things
Th~te are al course. many foolish people who
Tive tniy Go eat. drink and be merry And there
arr sts predatory ones who, take What they want
--af sisy can get II. But most people believe In
. eusnre life md always trying, often vaguely
ssss sGfftn'consciousiy to live the kind OF n nfe
i'H ~ssprs Ia them 1T TO survive. Hence their
lew wars resolutions. Many man In his heart
:" N"s f's Is day would be. with Robert Brown
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