WHAT WILL THE NEW YEAR BRING 



WILL the New Year bring greetings 

Blithesome and gay?  

Long looked for meetings, 

Joy's sunny days? 

Father, we know not! 

Coming joys show not! 

Hear our entreatings— 

Show thou the way! 

Will the New Year bring weeping— 

Sorrows increase? 

Will the New Year bring sleeping— 

Quiet release? 

Father, most tender, 

We can surrender 

All to thy keeping— 

Grant us thy peace! 




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