A New Year Reveille by Reginald Wright Kauffman

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jan 27, 1909

A New Year Reveille.

By Reginald Wright Kauffman

Reginald Wright Kauffman, in the January Circle Magazine

O, DO not say the Old Year dies; It lives, and on its serried scroll Are writ those deeds that must arise, Some year, to front and fright your soul! That year and last and all your years Gone by are what you made them; make Of this New Year from your old tears One year serene, immaculate.

Remember, willingly or no, As ordered by the Ancient Laws, However heedlessly you go, You are a Soldier in the Cause; The world has need of every man With manhood in him, aye, and more In the New Year now waking than In all the ages passed before.

The sun is up, the bivouac ends, The reveille is sounding clear; A moment and “assembly” sends The echoes sounding far and near; Your place is on the firing-line, Where’er your laggard feet once trod, Be ready for the last divine Command: the “Forward march!” of God.