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Camden S. C. Jan 1st 1867
A happy New Year my own darling
Sister: The last rays of the departed year
were curtained from our view by a leaden
sky & the same sombre clouds have ush-
ered in the new, but the sun is trying
to give us a new year's greeting, so that
the morning rays are a little more cheer-
ing than the twilight gleamings of yes-
terday : The earth is clothed in a robe of
purity & who knows but that ere it
has accomplished its yearly number
of revolutions, it will indeed be "a new
earth", the abode of the innocent & holy?
Omniscience alone can answer, so it be-
hooves us to be in readiness, watching &
praying for tho' this world of ours may
bloom in verdure & beauty for ages to come,
it may be the last year to us :
The many reminiscences connected with
sixty-six have each a place in memory's