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Let Us Be Kind.
A brother in need let us help—Kind Avords at the least- Aye can give — Let us give Avhat we can To help the true man , And try and assist him to live ! The young have the future to
meet—The poor Avith hard fate to contend—Tbe Aveak get more blows Than anyone knoAvs ! And tho friendless require a friend . W . COEBETT , Mariner ' s Lodge , 249 . Oct .- , 1877 .
Arrivals, Survivals, And Revivals.
ARRIVALS , SURVIVALS , AND REVIVALS .
BY BKO . SAMUEL POYNTEB , HOW very difficult it is to say anything new about Christmas ! For instance , I dare not delude myself into believing that it is original to remark that the festive Yule season reminds us of the old Latin poet ' s reflection , " HOAV swiftly the years slip away 1 " I am afraid that somebody—perhaps a good many somebodies—observed long
ago , about the recurrence of the feast , that life was made up of greetings and good-byes , We scarcely have time to realise to ourselves , that the jolly holly-crowned old monarch is with us once more ere we find ourselves clasping his honest hand in the farewell grip . HOAV the years glide aAvay indeed ! Why as you approach , what the old philosophers * were wont to call the grand climacteric , they seem to acquire miraculous momentum . They slither adown life ' s declivity with a velocity resembling the glacier
on the mountain ' s side . We all know with Avhat a dignified ponderous concession to the law of gravitation the immense mass commences its stately glissade , and hoAV it imperceptibly accelerates its progress into the mi ghty "Kerwosh"f of the avalanche—Anni labuntur indeed ! Well , I am not so sure about the sliding . As one ' s sun is westering , one rather likens the progress of the years to the orders at a cavalry review : Walk ! Trot !! Canter !!! Gallop ! 1 ! 1 Charge !!!!! Yes , I think that is the sequence as you
begin to note it , at , say half a hundred : " so soon passeth it aAvay and we are gone , " as the Psalmist says . But this is but a melancholy vein to approach Christmas in . Let us try to greet Noel cheerfully if we can . Greetings ! Why , when I was a boy it seemed an eternity between the shutting out of fairy-land at the fall of the baize one Christmas season , and the longed-for avatar of pantomimical paradise at the next , and now—Helas ! the " Here we are again !'' from the lips of last year ' s buffoon , seems still to be ringing in my ears as I am preparing them to receive the annual repetition of the hilarious announcement .
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Let Us Be Kind.
A brother in need let us help—Kind Avords at the least- Aye can give — Let us give Avhat we can To help the true man , And try and assist him to live ! The young have the future to
meet—The poor Avith hard fate to contend—Tbe Aveak get more blows Than anyone knoAvs ! And tho friendless require a friend . W . COEBETT , Mariner ' s Lodge , 249 . Oct .- , 1877 .
Arrivals, Survivals, And Revivals.
ARRIVALS , SURVIVALS , AND REVIVALS .
BY BKO . SAMUEL POYNTEB , HOW very difficult it is to say anything new about Christmas ! For instance , I dare not delude myself into believing that it is original to remark that the festive Yule season reminds us of the old Latin poet ' s reflection , " HOAV swiftly the years slip away 1 " I am afraid that somebody—perhaps a good many somebodies—observed long
ago , about the recurrence of the feast , that life was made up of greetings and good-byes , We scarcely have time to realise to ourselves , that the jolly holly-crowned old monarch is with us once more ere we find ourselves clasping his honest hand in the farewell grip . HOAV the years glide aAvay indeed ! Why as you approach , what the old philosophers * were wont to call the grand climacteric , they seem to acquire miraculous momentum . They slither adown life ' s declivity with a velocity resembling the glacier
on the mountain ' s side . We all know with Avhat a dignified ponderous concession to the law of gravitation the immense mass commences its stately glissade , and hoAV it imperceptibly accelerates its progress into the mi ghty "Kerwosh"f of the avalanche—Anni labuntur indeed ! Well , I am not so sure about the sliding . As one ' s sun is westering , one rather likens the progress of the years to the orders at a cavalry review : Walk ! Trot !! Canter !!! Gallop ! 1 ! 1 Charge !!!!! Yes , I think that is the sequence as you
begin to note it , at , say half a hundred : " so soon passeth it aAvay and we are gone , " as the Psalmist says . But this is but a melancholy vein to approach Christmas in . Let us try to greet Noel cheerfully if we can . Greetings ! Why , when I was a boy it seemed an eternity between the shutting out of fairy-land at the fall of the baize one Christmas season , and the longed-for avatar of pantomimical paradise at the next , and now—Helas ! the " Here we are again !'' from the lips of last year ' s buffoon , seems still to be ringing in my ears as I am preparing them to receive the annual repetition of the hilarious announcement .