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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