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Show The Old Year PasseWM The winds that from the Northland Wqw, Jjffl- 'pri From regions of eternal snow, ifkj WMVl At midnight now are chanting low vfj-' Their Miserere drear, llM The while the Old Year, .bentanaf J wm Goes desolate upon his Zifwfe' MAm ilrtl A King without a realm to sway, (VtT i)r Like sad, discrowned Lear. WyMfyfi j In silent woods low droops the ferny And seems for summer's flowers to VVWfffif But holly berries gham and burn, To grace the Old Year bier; VsTj And from the blue of heaven's P3 The stars look down with pitying SW" And softened seems the TadiancJuT Of moon at midmgclear. ' 'n. The Old Year passes; lo! he stands 'J,- And watches Time's fast falling sands, - Like dying flames from dyinndsy ,0 That soon will quchHir1iglit; "J$ And now a last flame fitfuTthrcs Jf v Its flickering light o'er wintry snows7 sj&s. And lights the way the Old Year goes 1 yrwv;b. To distant realms of night. , Er But while we stand, silent, devout, v O'er eastern hills, old Time's redoubt, llsrCiX There comes a gladdening "Hail!" and shopgvjg fJ That brings to us new cheer. For Twenty-One, both-lithe and youngWK With merry peal from glad bells flung MW Has come with joys as yet unsung HE (--jfl )n M) A new King now is here-----:'''2 I HrrTsHjdiiiK in n. y. V'"ldr yffl |
