Show the midnight hour solemn and drear the bells cwg out our good old year I 1 listen to the plaintive jound oer the country round alasi my has to depart my good old year t paws my heart he aas with me mid sunny rays and clung to me in cloudy days A friend in joy a m woe yes such aas he but he must got no more he shall return to me with all his charms and gifts so free and ahl it grieves me too the thought that I 1 ve not used him as I 1 and when I 1 think about this year forever now to disappear also of the years of jorj rung out since long to be no more with childhoods sport when dreams I 1 dreamed when fances rais upon me beamed with dear old home and all its charms and smiling eyes and loving arms with beckoning h apes of rainbow hue avith hearts sin ceri that stronger grew the bells say sad y gone for aye time sweeps your pleasures all abay auay cease to ang thou mournful bell I 1 do not like thy funeral knell curtain mine eyes thou blessed sleep and let me joy in dreamland reaal the notes are hushed the year is dead and ahat he aas and gave has fled but no once more I 1 hear it ring now moving with a steadier swing bounding sweet notes conveying cheer the bells ring in the bright new yeav new life new hope new peace new cheer ra reuell the old welcome new yearl yes church bells ring from lofty spire that heavenward point with hope to inspire the happ song as your clang which one sweet night gods angels sang glory to god and peace on earth good will to man at jesus birth REV S F |