'SEVENTY-FIVE' -- A NEW YEAR SONG

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Posted By: Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert (email)
Date: 5/2/2006 at 20:46:24

The Chariton Patriot
Chariton, Iowa
Thursday, January 13, 1875

(I'd love to know the 'tune' to this well written song, composed in 1875 --
130 years ago; a song of hope and truth... And, we think we've advanced so
much today!?...)
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'SEVENTY-FIVE'

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A NEW YEAR SONG

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Now the New Year comes apace,
With the light of loving grace,
With a smile upon its face --

Heart alive!

Comes to me and comes to you,
With his freight of treasure new,
Asking for a welcome true --

Seventy-five.

Grief and joy go hand in hand;
Thrift and waste hold all the land;
Some must fall and some must stand,

Want or thrive.

Just as years have come before,
With nothing less and nothing more,
Come he, knocking at our door --

Seventy-five.

Yet our human hearts will say,
"Let the Old Year go his way;
Speed the New, the joyful day!"

Heart alive!

We are glad and strong and free;
What can come to you or me!
God is good. So, welcome we

Seventy-five.
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Copied by Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert
May 2, 2006
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