572 BREAK, newborn year, on glad eyes break!

TIME AND ETERNITY
WATCH NIGHT AND NEW YEAR

572 C.M.
BREAK, newborn year, on glad eyes
break!
Melodius voices move!
On, rolling Time! thou not make
The Father cease to love.

2 The parted year had winged feet;
The Saviour still doth stay:
The New Year comes; but, Spirit sweet,
Thou goest not away.

3 Our hearts in tears may oft run o´er;
But, Lord, thy smile still beams;
Our sins are swelling evermore;
But pardoning grace still streams.

4 Lord! from this year more service win,
More glory, more delight!
O make its hours less sad with sin,
Its days with thee more bright!

5 Then we may bless its precious things
If earthly cheer should come,
Or gladsome mount on angel wings
If thou shouldst take us home.

Thomas H. Gill
Ur The Methodist Hymnal, 1905