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Show To the New Year Oh child New- Year, on whom the mantle falls of the departing yenr. who leaven to thee, The luboin. links, the duties and the calls Which me the heirlooms of the past, to be A precious trust the heritage of tluip, llow will Ihoti face the future nil alone? How front the foen of nlu, and vice, mid crime. Which miisn-r round with force and might un known? Tuke courage, child of time, lie not dismayed. Kuulp thncir with fulth and hope uml love And neek for nirength nnd wl-doui from above; With these to help thee, never be ufralil (in forth wlih Rladiiesa on thine tinirnil way, And ntreiigih will como to thee from day to day. R. I). NAI.HKIt. |