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.”
– James Whitcomb Riley
(The Complete Poetical Works of James Whitcomb Riley, Indiana University Press, 1993)
AMEN
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!