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ADDBBSSSD TO JOHy <J. SMITH, OX BEADDTO HIS " EEVIEE TIME." By Mbs A. Stenhottsb, Cape of G-ood Hope. Bufc tho' thou hast flown, Old Time, away, With bo many things that made life gay — Youth and its dreams of futurity, Hopes of earth that could never be, Visions of bliss unrealised, Forms beloved and so dearly prized : Once more, once more Thou canst restore Fond mem'ries of the days of yore. Gushing from many a mountain nook, like childhood's mirth, is the sportive brook ; Many a league it traverses o'«r, But it never returns to its birth-place more ; For it rolls to its grave, the distant sea, Enough, if fulfilling its destiny. Time cannot restore The days of yore : Be glad that then trials will come no more. That book replete with heavenly love, Tells us that time will be no more— Oh ! when beyond life's troubled sea, Permitted thro' immensity, To look with intellectual eye O'er all the past, the wherefore, why : Once more, once more Time must restore In heaven, the thefts of days of yore.
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Southland Times, Issue 870, 23 December 1867, Page 1 (Supplement)
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179LINES Southland Times, Issue 870, 23 December 1867, Page 1 (Supplement)
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