TO MARY.
OK Wit AKHIVBBBABT OP HBB W«DDIKfih»i.T. Br John GK Smth. : The daj has dawned again, Mary, That linked oar fates in one, And through all changing time, oar hearts Have beat in unison. We'rejourneyed through life's derious path, Where thorns and rotes grow— But there were flowers without the thorns, In days long, long ago; How sweet the primrose r decked the bank— The gowan starred the lea ; How sweet the throstle and the merle, . Rang forth their melody 1 Oar hearts were strung to ntusio then— We knew not grief or woe— ' Our sky was ever bright and clear, li • In days long, long ago. ; Dame Fortune's wheal has often tamed, ; Since we wire knit together;:" ; But 'mid all changes we hare been ; ■ The same to one another. " ;. " In smiles and tears — in hopes and fears— 'Mid cloud or sunay glow, We climbed the hill of life, as when In days long, long ago. But yet though joys we're had enow, ■/-■. r Sfe'n had our griefs to share— \ .? .. When all our gems are counted o'er, o ■ .-. One jewel is not there: ,: ; .: : : ; A lorely boyi he soundly sleeps, , . ■• ,The ocean-wares: below— He was our hope— our idol child— .- In days long, long ago. - - '■■ - ' ' - Since first we met, we're seen the spring ; , Fulleighteea times return, '' -*- • And autumn brin^ her golden store ~ • To deck the summer's vavL ; ; _ The snows of eld are on oar heads— : Oar eyes hare lost the glow : . -< ; That shed a radiance round the heart,' - - ■; .In days long, long ago. . : .'-. O, could the days come back again, \^, That you and I hare seen j . \jj " : Oi could' we tread the Highland hflli And ralleys clothed with green ! . ... Q, couli we feel again, Mary, "^ j , -; The vernal breezes blow, ; : ' That fanned our hearts to lore and" joy, ; ■( In days long, long ago. x j It may not be, we're reached the goal; - Where on one side we. as* The trelissed cot, the gowan glade— ■ - The scenes" of infancy; And on the other side, the swaid Which we shall sleep below, Far from the loving ones we prized \ --. In day* long, long ago, -,. ' -, : \
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Southland Times, Issue 1281, 19 July 1870, Page 3
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354TO MARY. Southland Times, Issue 1281, 19 July 1870, Page 3
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