A NEW-YElR's PRESENT.
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a .NEW-YE.lR'S PRESENT.
CAMILLA, my fair one, the lilly and rose,
" Tha, little time since were 50 blooming and


bright,


Their spicndour and fragrance are come 10 close,
Aud another short year hath betaken 10 fight.
'Tis a few DAYS 10 when we wal'd out one moro,
AS the sun was jaat risen above the green bill,
The pear-tree WAS iaica, the rose hid the thorn,
Aud sweelwas the qaernus voice OF the rili.
The thrush and the nnet were joyous and gay;
The iark sweetly sung from bis tent in the sky
From the haze's retreat burst the black bird away.
And the fields semed in music and beauty TO vie.
Camilla, the landscape hath lost its delight,
The earth Is ali barren, The trees are all bare,
The forest indeed wears amaatIe OF white,
But the voices, that cheelcd t,no longer are thee
NV fair one. how changed is the face of to-day!
To be snre tlle wind whistles unjoyous and drear
But the flowers have faded, the birds lonn away,
Their music all died with the death OF the year
Still the sun shall return and bis lamp shall he nigh
And The trees that are naked & by the blast,
Be again green A. ever aad rich ia has eye.
Bat, Camilla, ifes year is the first and the last,
Our.lamp shall wax dim aud our sln shalt retire,
And bodies, they must be Crambled e.
dust,


Who then shall breathe in spark of new fire
Camilla, life's year is the last and the first
A sum- that's eternal, shall burst on the tomb,
And commence new year, saith the voice of the
wise, -


His rays thy dark prison shall pierce and Hume,
And sprinkle with splendour thy path 10 the skies
There no birds are regretted, for harps that are
strong


BY the Cherubim, Seraphim burst on the ear,
The praise of the Lamb and the Father is sung
AVID glory eternal encircles the year. A. X.