This page has been validated.
The New Year
Come you with dangers to fright us? or hazards to try out our souls?
Then may you find us undaunted; determined to get to our goals.
Now, white are the pages you bring us to fill with the tales of our deeds,
And I pray we shall square at the finish the work of our lives with our creeds.
Oh, child of a year, do you wonder what here upon earth you shall find?
America shows you a people united in purpose and mind;
Whatever you bring us of danger, whatever you hold to affright,
I pray that we never shall lower our standards of truth and of right.
You find us a people united, full pledged to the work of the world,
To banish the despot and tyrant, our banner in battle’s unfurled;
94
