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 BA RTON 
 
 NEW- YEAR 
 OFFERING
 
 THE LIBRARY 
 
 OF 
 
 THE UNIVERSITY 
 
 OF CALIFORNIA 
 LOS ANGELES
 
 
 NEW- YEAR OFFERING ; 
 
 FOR 
 
 THE QUEEK 
 
 BY BERNARD BARTON, 
 
 " I would not trifle, merely, thougli The World 
 Be loudest in their praise who do no more." 
 
 COWPEE. 
 
 WOODBRIDGB 1 
 
 1847. 
 
 PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION.
 
 BZortMr 
 
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 GRATEFULLY AND UESPECrFULLt 
 
 INSCRIBED 
 
 TO THE QUEEN ^ 
 
 bV 
 
 her kind and indulgent 
 
 permission. 
 
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 INTRODUCTORY STANZAS. 
 
 Gracious Sovereign ! when I framed 
 Lays from "house-hold" feelings named; 
 To inscribe my Book to Thee, 
 Was no sordid boon to me ! 
 
 When my Muse, on Ocean's shore, 
 Culled, amid' the breakers' roar, 
 Wreaths of " Sea-weed " as her spoil, 
 Thy kind smile, re-paid my toil. 
 
 Now she would record in Rhyme, 
 One more solemn birth of Time ! 
 Charge me not with vain conceit, 
 When I lay it at Thy feet.
 
 VI INTRODUCTORY STANZAS. 
 
 Time must witness, in the end, 
 For us all as Foe, or Friend ; 
 Wouldst Thou have him not Thy foe, 
 Make Him " hless Thee — ere he go ! '''' 
 
 As The Patriarch did of old, 
 Wrestle Thou ! in meekness bold ; 
 Over Time — each Victory won, 
 Shall out-last Earth, Sea, and Sun ! 
 
 These, alike, confess His sway ; 
 And, with Him, must pass away ; 
 But Thy hetter Crown on high, 
 
 Won — SHALL WEAR ETERNALLY ! 
 
 BERNARD BARTON.
 
 A NEW YEAR OFFERING. 
 
 ONCE more hath Time's revolving flight, 
 
 Which knows no stop, and brooks no stay, 
 From busy day, or silent night, 
 
 Brought us another " New Year's Day : " 
 And I, who oft, with votive Lay, 
 
 Have heralded the new-born Year, 
 Once more feel bound my debt to pay, 
 
 Although with trcmbhng, and in fear.
 
 A NEW YEAR OFFERING. 
 
 n. 
 
 For who that has attained three score. 
 
 And upwards, — glancing to The Past, 
 Conning The Future, too, once more, 
 
 And conscious that Life's sands ebb fast. 
 While clouds his evening sky o'er-cast ; 
 
 But well may feel — that as to all 
 An hour must come, of Life the last ! 
 
 Night's shadows soon may round him fall. 
 
 III. 
 
 But this must be as God shall will ! 
 
 Suns rise, and set ; Moons wax, and wane ; 
 Stars hold their onward courses still ; 
 
 And ebbs, and flows, the mighty Main ; 
 The trees, now leafless on the plain, 
 
 Shall bud, and blossom with The Spring ; 
 And Summer deck with flowers again, 
 
 Valley, and hill, where wild birds sing.
 
 A NEW YEAR OFFERING. 9 
 
 IV. 
 
 Hope springs perpetual in the breast, 
 
 That one more Year may yet be ours ; 
 And though this cannot be our rest, 
 
 Life's roughest paths have still their flowers ; 
 E'en through the cloud that darkest lours 
 
 Some gleams of sunshine find their way ; 
 The dreaded storm goes off in showers. 
 
 And, once more, all around looks gay. 
 
 V. 
 
 Hence, e'en in Seasons dark and drear. 
 
 When Winter binds the frozen Earth, 
 By many a blazing fire we hear 
 
 The blythesome laugh of joyous mirth : 
 And, round the cheerful House-hold hearth, 
 
 The kindly wish, the look, the word, 
 Called forth in spite of Nature's dearth. 
 
 Are kindUng, as a fire just stirr'd !
 
 10 A NEW YEAR OFFERING. 
 
 VI. 
 
 It is The Season of the Year 
 
 When thoughts and feehngs, apt to roam 
 While groves are green, and skies are clear, 
 
 Up-gather, and unfold at Home ! 
 In lowly hut, or lordly dome. 
 
 Greetings of glee are inter-changed ; 
 E'en wanderers on the salt sea-foam, 
 
 From kindred seem no more estranged. 
 
 VII. 
 
 They gaily trim their Cabin fire, 
 
 And think of those — who, by the light 
 Of their own hearths, now blazing higher, 
 
 To hail this festal day, and night, 
 With many a jocund New- Year rite. 
 
 And thoughts nor tide, nor time can stem, 
 Their home-bound memories now requite, 
 
 And turn, instinctively, to them.
 
 A KEW YEAR OFFERi:4G. 
 
 11 
 
 VIII. 
 
 Hail to the time ! when social joys, 
 
 In which the humblest have their part, 
 Give birth to bliss wliich seldom cloys, 
 
 But binds more closely heart to heart : 
 And if luibiddcn tears may start 
 
 At gaps, by death, or absence riven ; 
 In better hearts to heal their smart, 
 
 A Christian's humble hopes are given. 
 
 IX. 
 
 What marvel, then, if at this time. 
 
 To English hearts, in grief, or glee, 
 Hallow'd by many a midnight chime, 
 
 Brighten'd by many a Holly-Tree, 
 With its green leaves, and berries free 
 
 To glisten in Home's happy smiles, 
 My heart should fondly turn to Thee, 
 
 Who rulest o'er our Sea-girt Isles ?
 
 12 A KEW YEAR OFFERING 
 
 For never, in the proudest sway, 
 
 Erst to imperial Rome assign'd, 
 Could e'en her Emperors display 
 
 A richer mastery over Mind, 
 Heart, Soul, or Spirit ! ties that bind 
 
 In bonds of closest imison, 
 All that endears us to our Kind, 
 
 Than our own Island Queen hath won. 
 
 XI. 
 
 Where are the links that Home endear, 
 
 •The joys wliich gladden its fire-side. 
 More fondly loved, and prized than here ; 
 
 Search where you will the World so \vide : 
 Such in their purer bhss, and pride. 
 
 Thy Consort's, Children's smiles inspire ; 
 With such is evermore allied 
 
 The Memory of Thy Noble Sire !
 
 A NEW YEAR OFFERING. 13 
 
 XII. 
 
 To the true Soul of England's Queen, 
 
 In English hearts and homes to live, 
 And rule such with a sway serene, 
 
 Should be a proud Prerogative ! 
 A Wife, a Mother must receive 
 
 From Empery so pure, and high, 
 A joy Courts cannot always give. 
 
 Nor Sceptre, Crown, or Throne supply. 
 
 XIII. 
 
 The Loyalty that owes its birth 
 
 To happy hearths — must far transcend. 
 And boast a higher, purer worth. 
 
 Than mere lip-service can pretend ; 
 For thoughts and feelings with it blend, 
 
 Which have their origin above ! 
 And ever to their birth-place tend, 
 
 Where Loyalty is based ou Love.
 
 14 A NEW YKAR OFFERING. 
 
 XIV. 
 
 What then of Happiness terrene, 
 
 Could by kind Heaven awarded be 
 To Woman, Mother, Wife, or Queen, 
 
 Than, Lady ! seems allotted Thee ? 
 To live enthroned in breasts as free 
 
 As Home, and home-born joys can share, 
 Which, like our own engirdling Sea, 
 
 Would guard Thee with a Lover's care. 
 
 XV. 
 
 Then may this coming Year — to Thee, 
 
 And Thine, with every good be fraught ; 
 From shore to shore, from sea to sea, 
 
 May seeming ill be over- wrought ; 
 And into such subjection brought 
 
 By God's o'er-ruling Providence, 
 That skies now dark to boding thought, 
 
 Round Thee may sunny light dispense.
 
 A NEW YEAR OFFERING. 15 
 
 XVI. 
 
 In the grave words of Sabbath-Prayer, 
 
 May He, the King of Kings, on high, 
 O'er Thee extend His guardian Care ; 
 
 His Holy Spirit's Grace supply ; 
 With Gifts endue Thee plenteously ; 
 
 Grant Thee in health and wealth to live ; 
 Here — crown thee with true Victory, 
 
 Hereafter — Joy eternal give ! 
 
 EDWARD PITE, PRINTEB, WOODBEIDOE.
 
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