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Show FAREWELL OLD TEAS. The old year will anon have paat Into hiatnry. vie part witli it a with an old friend. To aoine It haa brouiilit intirli joy olher Burrow. Yet we are rn Inctant to aay furewell. Like a ptilalwl man It bitter aa it near the end ef life's Journey and goe forward toward to-ward that vaat vault wherein doth He Ihe form of dead dynnatie and ah pet ed eenliirle wept by the remorwlea. hand of lime tn I hut liri'ut Kraveyanl at the entrance of which riaea the Imaginary Imag-inary tnmbaton iiob which l Inacribed theae wordai TI1K PAHT. There Is a tiblime imleiniiity la the alowly niuv Iiik, yet never varying, tide nf yeara. Man hua marked ita coure Into hour., day, week, month, year and eenlu riea, yet it ruahea on, on, on, and atlll on, utterly unniindful of the puny mark rained to mraaure the tide that never tire. Iiynaallc have roae, flour lahed sad decayed; cities have pruiiK from fertile plain and then aank be neath tb deaert's driftliiK aanda; eon tinents have n'ared their lofty brow above the ocean's truckle wu.lc. only to return to the eoral cavern fr whence they roe; race have riaen to the noon of aplendor aud become loal in the depth of ni(ht, but Tim, pa lieu!, pluddiuK. tirclea Time, awecpn ou with the aaiue ri'Kiilurily a when 11 Arat iaaucd forth, from the hollow oi tlod' hand, to the chant of the morn j lug- tar that proclaimed Creation V dawn. And yet time Is but the iuiai;e of eternity, the ahaduw of a sUnrelea aea, the type of a duration for which all the pane paat and all the aeoni I" ciime would unt make ur rnnaiitute th.'1 Ilrat faint tluah nf the tlrat atrenk ul thu duwn of it accnod morning. " liter nityl thou pleuaiug, dreadful Ihoughll" That never ending reign ucceeding thei craah of matter and the wreck of the world, auna and ayatcma! Intelll geuce haa achieved tnumpha. It ha read the tara of heaven and can fur tell to a aecond when the great, tier) i HUB will be hidden in partial or total I eclipae; it can read the hialory of the creittiun on I lie rocka of nature and un fold the aetret hiden by Und lu the bowel of the earth; but when It ul tempt to graap the igniflcance of eler-tiily eler-tiily it al n ml abaahed and dumbfound ed at ll itiubilily to comprehend an in finite plan. 1 Hheiherd at the grange, Whore the llabe waa born. Hang with many a change, , t'liriatiuai carol until morn. liongfellow. |