The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1922-12-28


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Brlms over with the slvry radiance.
Across TahOsa Valley looms Longs Peak,
~King of the Rockies" with It's towring crown
Atop its monstrous, dark, grim preclplce
A-gliter in the food Of silver light
Behind me rise The Twins to tlmberine,
Recumbent in silhouette as If carved
BY the chlsel OF the Master Sculptor
part and parcel Of a 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 Ike beacon fires
Take up the watch the weary moon has quit
The Ola Year passes out; comes in the New
Without a sound, a token a 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 year2
And now IS staged with ceremonlous pomp
ghe recurrent miracle Of the dawn
In setting worthy of the Masters art,
with glores worthy of the glad New Year:
Behind The Sisters grows a 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
The rim of great golden disk thrusts up
Above the sllhouetted Sisters crest.
Deer Meadow, Meeker, 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,
Gail back their shadows from the Valley floor
A breeze wakes up and dances forth to help
The trees shake off their burdnlng robes of white
A crested iay fits I'm q Shelt'ring nine
snowshoe rabbit goes sedately past
And makes the first mark on the untracked snow.
Across Tahosa Valley smoke goes up
Blue chImney-smoke that tells Of kndled hearth,
With family astlr and life and ovei
And there stands Longs-unchanged 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,
Nin(ipen Twenty-three Ammo Domni--
Elm 1Ie Year of Our Lord" the Son Of God,
Who 'aught man. DO as We would be done by"
Who dad upon the cross to save mankind
Thlga is m old saying and wise: let the dead
past 5Ury It's deadw It's wisdom however lies
largcly In what It really means rather than in what
It actually says. For burial does not mean both
burymE and forgetting. And It should not What
The adtge means is this:
let's turn over new leaf on New Years day.
1923. ara try to make better looking page than
we did IA 1927"
There Is said to be mo new thing under the
sun" Certain Il is that are digging up records
nowadays that show human nature TO have been
about the came IN 400 b. c. that It Is now. So
doubtless man has been making New Years rcso-
buttons ever since there was any New Years day.
And doubtless he has been breaking them lust az
regularly And doubtless the cyncs and the pes.
eImlsts ana the professional jokers have been
laughing over the performance through the ages
Nevertheless, this recurring New Years per.
fOrrnance Is lot more than merely the material
for Jest In fact # 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 70 eat drink and be merry And there
are the predatory ones, who take what they want
III they can get II. But most people believe II
future life and are always trying, often vaguely
and halfunconsciously, 20 I've the kind Of II lif'
that seems to them ~ TO survive. Hence thel
New Years resolutions. Many n man In his hear
on New Years day would be, 9Th Robert Brown
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