Another Year of Setting Suns

Another year of set­ting suns

Of stars by night re­vealed

Of spring­ing grass

of ten­der buds

By win­ter’s snow con­cealed.

Another year of sum­mer’s glow

Of au­tumn’s gold and brown

Of wav­ing fields

and rud­dy fruit

The branch­es weigh­ing down.

Another year of hap­py work

That bet­ter is than play;

Of sim­ple care

and love that grows

More sweet from day to day.

Another year of ba­by mirth

And child­hood’s bless­èd ways;

Of think­er’s thought

and pro­phet’s dream

And po­et’s ten­der lays.

Another year at beau­ty’s feast

At ev­ery mo­ment spread;

Of si­lent hours

when grow dis­tinct

The voic­es of the dead.

Another year to fol­low hard

Where bet­ter souls have trod;

Another year of life’s de­light;

Another year of God!