Watch Night
Another year to
stand and watch
The old year passing in review;
And then to know before us lies
Another whence to start anew.
Another year for
us to mold
Our lives according to His will;
Another year in which to find
The place that we alone can fill.
Another year
prepares for all
A book with pages clean and white,
And what we do or leave undone
Determines what its hand shall write.
-- George W.
Wiseman
(in Doran's Ministers Manual, 1945)