SONG OF THE NEW YEAR.

BY MRS. R. S. NICHOLS.

I have come, I have come from a shadowy clime,

An heir of the monarch Earth’s children call Time;

With years yet unborn, I have stood in the hall

That was reared by our sire, awaiting his call:

Last eve, as I lay on his bosom at rest,

I saw slowly rise a white cloud in the west;

Now through the blue ether, through regions of space,