This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861 Excerpt: ...wee ones, let our toast Be "The Future and the Past," And let the reign of Christmas last Till this old decrepit Year gives up the ghost! Then with loyal hearts and true We'll the task of life renew, And what we can for brother man we'll do; To further every movement Tending to the world's improvement, Let us love and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861 Excerpt: ...wee ones, let our toast Be "The Future and the Past," And let the reign of Christmas last Till this old decrepit Year gives up the ghost! Then with loyal hearts and true We'll the task of life renew, And what we can for brother man we'll do; To further every movement Tending to the world's improvement, Let us love and labour--hope and struggle too. Let the largest and the least Sit together at our feast; Let the poor be not forgotten, but forgiven Be every grudge and wrong, While each happy, love-tuned tongue Riseth jubilant in homage-strains to heaven! And when Christmas cometh round, With the snow of ages crowned, And another winter's weight upon his brow, May we meet on Life's high road, Twelve months' travel nigher God With this world more wise and better than 'tis now. FAREWELL TO THE OLD YEAR. Faeeweii, old year, for thy death-knell has rung! One solemn peal, flung from the tower of Time, Proclaims that to the mighty Past belong Thy works and woes--misfortunes--deeds sublime! Dark sin--deep sore! Thy catalogue of crime Hath greatly grown beneath War's bloody hand, And Valour now, as in her ancient prime, Hath laurels won for this her native land, And stormed Oppression's walls, when Freedom gave command. The fiery feet of desolating War Were kissed by Fame and Famine, till the reign Of death-born Sorrow, stretching wide and far, Had dipped the World in Grief's pale sea of pain; Ten thousand maidens mourn their lovers slain, Ten thousand wives their husbands--fathers, sons, By Mars rude-mangled on the ball-paved plain, Or crushed and buried by their splintered guns, Have sunk to glorious death, as Fate's dark current runs. But thou hast hung thy helmet in the skies Of History, and trod beneath thy feet, Trade, Commerce, Peace and Progress, wh...
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