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New Year

How burn the stars unchanging in the midnight skies,

As on the earth the old year dies!

Like leaves before the storm, so haste our lives away;

Eternal God, to Thee we pray.

For all Thy mercies past we lift our hearts in praise,

Thy care that crowned our fleeting days;

Our follies and our sins, O Lord, remember not,

Lost hours when we Thy love forgot.

From age to age Thy love endures; Thou art our God.

Send now Thy flaming truth abroad,

That with the New Year’s dawning right may conquer wrong

Grief yield to joy, and tears to song!

John J. Moment (b. 1875