THE OLD YEAR AND THE NEW.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 306, 9 January 1875, Page 4

THE OLD YEAR AND THE NEW.

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Ring out tho Old'Year^rinß-infthb'New,? ' ' Earth's jovs are fleeting','.life's hours are* few; 1 Loud tho sonorous peal sells'on the wind, Time loaves another year's footstep3 ; bohirid.' Tting out the Old Ypar-iVoice of the bolls, Whnt tales of pleasures past once more it t'ellsj' What tales of hope and joy, sorrow nnd sin, ■'."/• Kinging the Old Year out, and the New in. • Ring out the Old Year—Voice of the -Past, Warning of follies and wrongs*!!* the last ', - Whisp'ring of budding lives crushed in. theirbloom,- ', Whisp'ring of steps that haste down to the, tomb. _ .* i Ring out the Old Yoar—ay, thus the aands run : i Down in life's hour glass, one aftor one, Slowly and surely, for great and for small, Till from tho "ting to slave death ruleth all. Ring out the Old Year, its sorrows are o'er, - i Then be its trespasses cherishod'no more ; Gather not up again leaves that are shed, But let the dead Past bury its dead.'' r> Eing out tho Old Year's sorrow and sin, ' ; ' And full of faith and hope ring the New in; > On to tho future heorlcen its call; God is above us aud careth for all. Ring in tho Now Year, God is above; Ask for His blessing, and trust in Ifis love ; So shall each yoar to us graciously given' JtJo but a stepping-stone leading to Heaven. Rin£r in the Now Year; life here begun Shall pass through death to life beyond the sun j Life such as angels share round the great throne, Where neither Old Year or New Year is known. if. A. —' N. O. Times.' :