The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1922-12-30


clad peaks
~ Is dazzling ..,.1' with new-f"''en snow '''
Brms over with the sv'ry radiance.
Across Tahosa Valley looms Longs Peak
king Of the Rockies" with Its tow'ring crown
Atop Its monstrous dark. grim precipice
A.giitter In the flood Of silver light.
Behind me rise The Twins to timberiine
Recumbent in silhouette as II carved
BY the chsel OF the Master Sculptor
A part and parcel OF u perfect whole
Planned by the Master Architect himself
Perfected through the ages by His will
That with sheer beauty makes the heart to acne
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. q
The Old Year passes out comes In the rev s..
Without sound, q token or q Sign. saa
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 once more
And Time grant unto US another year!
And now Is staged with eeremonious pomp
The recurrent miracle Of the dawn
In setting worthy of the Masters art,
With giories worthy of the glad New Year:
Behind The Sisters grows pearly glow;
The Kings oertopplng crown CLOVIS ruby red;
Lowying clouds in The Pass to the south
Are shot with gold: the skyline Of the pines
Against their glory stands raggedly out.
The rim OF q great xOlOen UISk Vnruoto w
Above the silhouetted Sisters crest.
Deer, Meadow. Meeker. Lady Washington.
Battle. Lily and Estes Cone change white
For rose tints Wooded slopes don black for
green.
The SISTERS a. tAe sun mounts In the sky,
Call back their shadows from the Valley floor.
A bresse wakes up and dances forth to help
The trees shake of Their burd'ninE robes Of white.
4 crested jay dts In 4 sheltring pine.
A snowshoe rabbit goes sedately past
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Across Tnhosa Valley smoke goes up
Blue chimney smoke that tells Of kindled hearth.
With family asir and life and love!
And there stands Longs-unchnnged. unchange-
able!
Now know glad spring shall come again.
Summer time harvest time. another year.
And 30 il born to this glad New Year,
Nineteen Twenty.three Ammo DOmini-
"In the Year Of Our Lord" the Son OF God,
Who taught man, do ye would be done by"
Who died upon the cross to save mankind.
There il 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
Il actually says For burial DOES not mean both
the adaee means Ia this:
Lets turn over 4 new leaf New Years day.
1928 and try to make 4 better looking page than
we did In 1927"
There II BalO 10 DC no new uuoeT tne
SUM-" Certain II 10 that we are 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
buttons 0ksf 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 the ages.
Nevertheless, this recurring New Years per-
Torrance II lot more than merely the material
for jest. In fact It Il one Of the things that
keeps alive the faith In human nature and the
hope that the world IL progressing year by year
toward better things.
There are Of course. many foolish people who
I've only to eat drink and be merry And there
ure the predatory ones. who take what they want
If they can get 1t. But most people believe In
future life md are always trying, often vaguely
and hnlf-unconsciously. to live the kind of life
TINT 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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