Happy New Year!

Song Of The New Year

I heard the bells at midnight

Ring in the dawning year;

And above the clanging chorus

Of the song, I seemed to hear

A choir of mystic voices

Flinging echoes, ringing clear,

From a band of angels winging

Through the haunted atmosphere:

‘Ring out the shame and sorrow,

And the misery and sin,

That the dawning of the morrow

May in peace be ushered in.’

And I thought of all the trials

The departed years had cost,

And the blooming hopes and pleasures

That are withered now and lost;

And with joy...