The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1922-12-29

| | | TahOSa-"}alley IN INC Aouh'oAh
! ~ nj Tops"
Nv vi All trimmed about with lofty snow
clad peaks,
~ Is dazzling with new-fallen snow; its
cup
Brims over with the silvry radiance.
Across Tahosa Valley looms Longs Peak,
king of the Rockies" with its towring crown
Atop Its monstrous dark, grim precipice
A-glitter In the food of silver light
Behind rise The Twins TO timberne,
Recumbent In silhouette IL carved
BY the chise 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 aene-
The hours pass on The mooA sinks and is gone
Myriad stars that blaze like beacon fires
Take up the watch the weary moon has quilt
The Old Year passes out; cores In the NE"
Without a sound, token or sign
There is no hint of life. Can It be true
The SIM will shine again and day come DacR
And life leap in the glad green spring once more
And Time grant unto US another Year,
| And now Ia staged with ceremonious pomp
The recurrent miracle Of the dawn
In setting worthy of the Masters art,
| With glories worthy of the glad New 1ear'
Behind The Sisters grows pearly glow;
The Kings oertopping crown CLOVIS ruby red;
| Low-iyIng clouds in The Pass to the south
| Are shot with gold; the skyline of the pines
Against their glory stands raggedy out.
The rim of a great golden disk thrusts up
Above the silhouetted 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,
| Call back their shadows from the Valley floor.
A breeze wakes up and dances forth TO help
The trees shake off their hurdning robes of white
A crested jay fits In shelt'ring pine.
| A snowshoe rabbit goes sedately past
And makes the first mark on the untracked snow.
Across Tahosa Valley smoke goes up
Blue chime y-smoke that tells Of kindled hearth,
| With family astir and life and love-
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.
| Nineteen Twenty-three Ammo Domini-
| "In the Year Of Our LGrd." the Son OF God,
| who taught man. do as we would be done by"
| Who died upon the cross to save mankind.
| There Is an old saying and wise: Let the dead
past bury Its dead" Its wisdom. however. lies
largely In what really means rather than in what
Ii actually says. For burial does not mean both
burying and forgetting. And II should not. What
the adage means is this:
LETS turn over a leaf on New Years day,
1923. and try TO make a better looking page than
we did In 1927"
There is suld to be mo thing under the
| sun" Certain IL is that digging up records
I nowadays that show human nature TO have been
about the same In 1000 B. c. that II Is now. So
| doubtless man has been making New Years reso-
buttons ever since there any New Years day.
| And doubtless he has been breaking them just as
! regularly And doubtless the cynics and the pes
slmsts and the professional jokers have heen
laughing over the performance through the ages.
| Nevertheless this recurring New Years per
| Torrance is a lot more than merely the material
| for Jest In fact. II is of the things THAI
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
II they can get 1t. But most people believe In
a future lsfe and always trying, often vaguely
and ENTHUSIASTICALLY, to live the kind OF life
tha; seems to them ct to survive. Hence their
New Years resolutions. Many a man In his heart
IN Now Years dsT would be. with Robert Brown
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