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Edgar Guest - The New Year
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Come you with dangers to fright us? or hazards
to try out our souls?
Then may you find us undaunted; determined to
get to our goals.
Now, white are the pages you bring us to fill
with the tales of our deeds,
And I pray we shall square at the finish the work
of our lives with our creeds.

Oh, child of a year, do you wonder what here
upon earth you shall find?
America shows you a people united in purpose
and mind;
Whatever you bring us of danger, whatever you
hold to affright,
I pray that we never shall lower our standards
of truth and of right.

You find us a people united, full pledged to the
work of the world,
To banish the despot and tyrant, our banner in
battle`s unfurled;
And here to a world that is bleeding and weary
and heartsick you come,
Whatever you`ve brought us of duty—we`ll
answer the call of your drum.

We may weep in our grief and our sorrows, we
may bend `neath the might of the blow,
But never our courage shall falter, and never
we`ll run from the foe.
We know not how troubled our pathways shall
be nor how sorely beset,
But I pray we shall cling to our honor as men
and never our purpose forget.
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