Middletown transcript., 1922-12-30

Rides the December moon In blue
black sky
= To light the Old Year out, the New
Year in
Tahosa-"valley in the Mountain
~ vi Tops"
Vi All trimmed about with lofty snow.
~ clad peaks.
Is dazzling with newfaen snow; Its
cup
Brims 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 precpce
Agliter In the food of silver light
Behind me rise The Twins to tlmberline
Recumbent in silhouette as If carved
BY the chisel of the Master Sculptof-
A part and parcel of a perfect whole
Planned by the Master Architect himself
Perfected through the ages by His will
Ihat 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 a token or n sign
There Is no hint Of life. Can it be true
The sun will shine again and day come back
AND life leap In the glad green spring once more.
And Time grant unto us another year?
And now is staged with ceremonIous pomp
The recurrent miracle of the dawn
In setting worthy of the Masters art
with glores worthy of the glad New Year:
Behind The Sisters grows pearly glow;
The Kings o'ertoppng crown glows ruby red;
Low-lying clouds in The Pass to the south
Are shot with gold the skyline of the pines
Against their glory stauds raggedly out.
The rim of n great golden disk thrusts up
Above the shouetted Sisters crest.
Deer, Meadow NIeeker, Lady Washington
Battle, Lily and Estes Cone change white
FOR rose tints. Wooded slopes doff black for
green.
The Sisters, as 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 off their burdning robes Of white
crested jay fits In shetring pine
A snowshoe rabbit goes sedately past
And makes the first mark on the untracked snow
Across Tahosa Valley smoke goes up
Blue chmney-smoke that tells of kinded hearth
With family astir and life and love
And there stands Longs-unchanged, unchanCe-
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 Domni-.
"In 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 an old saying and wise: LET the dead
past bury its dead !" Its wisdom, however lies
largely In what it really means rather than in what
1t actually says. For burial does not mean both
burying and forgetting. And it should not Whnt
the adage means Is this
Lets turn over II new leaf on New Years dav
1923, and try to make better looking page than
we did in 1922"
There is said to be mo new thing under the
SUM-" Certain 1t Is that digging up records
nowadays that show human nature to have been
about the same in 1000 b. c. that 1t is now. So
doubtless man has been making New Years reso
lutions ever since there was any New Years day.
And doubtless he has been breaking them Just as
regularly. And doubtless the cyncs and the pes-
simists and the professional jokers have been
laughing over the performance through tile ages
Nevertheless this recurring New Years per.
formance is lot more than merely the material
for jest. In fact, 1t Is one 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
are the predatory ones, who take what they want
If they can get it. But most people believe in
a future life and are always trying, often vaguely
and half-unconsciously to live the kind Of life
that seems to them fit to survive. Hence their
New Years resolutions. Many man in his heart
on New Years day would be. with Robert Brown.
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