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About The Hesperian / (Lincoln, Neb.) 1885-1899 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 27, 1899)
i ym n' rt r ( c t y0 'x -? JN fc r- h v9(?V -t 'i) . ' lT ' ? i"""-. The Hesperian. .-; i WEEKLY JOURNAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA. THE 3NTETW YEXA.R. He is here, with his beauty of face and form; His faith is high and his heart is warm; His pulses throng with the thrills of hope, And his limbs are strong for the Upward Slope: He knows not sorrow, he knows not fear, His step is steady, his eye is clear; His bright brow blossoms with fragant flowers, And ho takes no heed of the fleeting houra. For him the earth is a paradise Of rippling waters and softened skies. He sees no thorn in his path of bloom : No tortutous ways that are lost in gloom. He knows no burdens that he must bear No sombre shadows of coming care. He walks the world with a careless tread, Though lib every step is upon the dead! But his youthful dream, it will pass away, As the darkness follows the d'ing day; And the rugged steeps will be hard to climb, As his strength grows less in the coming time. The flowers will fade that are fragrant now; The chaplet will wither upon his brow; The curls that are brown will change to white; The days that are bright will change to night; The wrinkles will gather upon his face; His sorrows will grow with the lightening days; Ho will bend and faint 'neath the burdens he bears; And his soul will grow sick under mountains of care; His eyes will bo dim, and his step be slow. 'Tis the common fate in a world of woo; For the end must come, and his hopes grow cold, ' As the Now Year fades the into Old. TnEo. M. Gaefenteb. I&
