OLD TIMES.
Rosy hours of youth and fancy! Happy hours of long ago ! - ■ Ah, the -playful "pictured 'memoriesLet, us .catch thein as they flow. ' " Galaxies ofi blue-eyed Mary's, ' ' " ' -- With ; a Jjilialoiva Jane,' - • - . • Or a troop of little Lauras- ■ ,Laugh and blush and romp again. Moonlight meetings, evening rambles, . When the moon was still around. -' - And a sweet voice, softly murmuring. Or a kiss.the only sound— : - ;- ~,- 4 j,r?i ~ These remember! and ; remember : ' : How the kind stars. shone above ->' Keeping, in their softened. splendour, Watch and' ward upon our love. Youth is as a diamond dawning , i ' < . Bold it breaks to gorgeous day • Heavenly lights of power and" ;beauty - (xlance.and gleam along'its. way.".'" Ear. : within the mighty future; V, There be solemn voices heard. Shaped to many a stately anthem, Floats the- music of a word. But that music in, the present, Softly droops : with'sad decay, Till its echo in the spirit Faints and falls and dies away. Green be: then the tender-memory Of the past, for ever sped ; TJ? **£^ C J onth ma J be immortal, Ihdugh its days and dreams are dead. -
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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 163, 19 April 1872, Page 6
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182OLD TIMES. Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 163, 19 April 1872, Page 6
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