Excerpt from Beautiful Thoughts A happy New Year to all! Happy may it be through all the frosty winter days, the breezy March, the budding spring-time, and the blossoming summer, - happy through the golden autumn days, and happy through the Christmas month, to the very end! How can it be made truly happy? May it not by walking hand in hand with the beautiful angel. Love? Love will make us wish nothing so much as to please our kind heavenly Father who loves us and watches over every moment of our lives. Love will make us gentle and helpful to every one about us, and kind to every living thing. Let us ask God to send the Love-angel to walk at our side, and we shall surely have a happy year. The Child And The Year. Said the child to the youthful year, "What hast thou in store for me, O giver of beautiful gifts, - what cheer, What joy dost thou bring with thee?" "My seasons four shall bring Their treasures; the Winter's snows. The Autumn's store and the flowers of Spring, And the Summer's perfect rose. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.