The Holly chieftain., 1922-12-28

- To light the Old Year out, the New
Year in.
Tahosa-'Valley In the Mountain
IL. ~ Tops"
~ vi All trimmed about with lofty snow
clad peaks,
Is dazzling with new-fallen 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 precpice
Aglitter in the flood of silver light.
Behind me rise The Twins to timberline,
Recumbent in silhouette as II carved
BY the chisel 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 like beacon fires
Take up the watch the weary moon has quilt
The Old Year passes out; comes In the New
Without sound, token or a sign.
There is no hint of life. Can 1t 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 glories worthy of the glad New Year:
Behind The Sisters grows pearly glow;
The Kings o'ertopring 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 stands raggedly out.
The rim of 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 dof 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 burd'ning robes of white
A crested Jay fits in sheltring pine.
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 kindled hearth
With family astir and life and love!
And there stands Longs-unchanged, unchange-
able!
Now know glad spring shall again,
Summer time, harvest time, another year.
And so is born to us this glad New Year,
Nineteen Twenty-three Ammo Domlni-
"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 is an old saying and wise: LET the dead
past bury Its dead" Its wisdom, however lies
largely In what 1t really rather than in what
1t actually says. For burial does not mean both
burying and forgetting And 1t should not What
the adage means Is this:
Lets turn over new leaf New Years day
1928. and try to make better looking page than
we did in 1922 I"
There is said to be mo thing under the
sun" 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 lust as
regularly. And doubtless the cynIcs and the pes
simsts and the professional jokers have been
laughing over the performance through the ages
Nevertheless this recurring New Years per.
forrnance Is a 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
tive only to eat drink and be merry And there
lre the predatory ones. who take what they want
III they can get 1t. But most people believe In
future life and are always trying, often vaguely
and haf-unconsciously, to live the kind of life
that seems to them fit to survive. Hence their
New Years resolutions Many in his heart
on NV Years day would be, with Robert Brown
ting,