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1848.—A Valediction.
1848 . —A VALEDICTION .
ANOTHER YEAR to those that went before Is added . Who can say how many more , If any , he will here , on earth , remain—Partaker of its pleasure or its pain ? Who can select , from by-gone years , but one In which he did no ill—left not undone
Some deed of goodness ? Who shall dare to say , That in the coming year , he will repay All debts of kindness , if remembered all?—That even no unkindness shall enthrall Mis better feelings ? Who shall be assured That he has all the misery endured
Allotted to his life ? Or , who be sure That , happy now , he shall not yet endure The loss of what he prizes most—of health—Of best-beloved—of honour—or of wealth ?
Let us , then , meet the coming year , not mute In thankfulness for blessings , that best suit Human existence ; though we sigh for more , And still should sigh , if tenfold were the store !—Nor , with repinings loud or muttered low , That we are less exempt from mortal woe
Than others . Let us greet it , as a Friend Helping us on to where all sorrows end-Where Hope , and Faith , and Charity , and Truth , And Love Divine , bloom in eternal youth ! J . LEE STJ . VI . NS , P . G . S . London , December 1848 .
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1848.—A Valediction.
1848 . —A VALEDICTION .
ANOTHER YEAR to those that went before Is added . Who can say how many more , If any , he will here , on earth , remain—Partaker of its pleasure or its pain ? Who can select , from by-gone years , but one In which he did no ill—left not undone
Some deed of goodness ? Who shall dare to say , That in the coming year , he will repay All debts of kindness , if remembered all?—That even no unkindness shall enthrall Mis better feelings ? Who shall be assured That he has all the misery endured
Allotted to his life ? Or , who be sure That , happy now , he shall not yet endure The loss of what he prizes most—of health—Of best-beloved—of honour—or of wealth ?
Let us , then , meet the coming year , not mute In thankfulness for blessings , that best suit Human existence ; though we sigh for more , And still should sigh , if tenfold were the store !—Nor , with repinings loud or muttered low , That we are less exempt from mortal woe
Than others . Let us greet it , as a Friend Helping us on to where all sorrows end-Where Hope , and Faith , and Charity , and Truth , And Love Divine , bloom in eternal youth ! J . LEE STJ . VI . NS , P . G . S . London , December 1848 .