RECOLLECTION.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 175, 23 October 1886, Page 3

RECOLLECTION.

When mcm'iy looks back on the lecord of year?, Ere reason ami feeling < ? ecay, Ere the footsteps we leave in this valley of tears Are swept by oblivion away, 'Tis sweet, when delight lias been sober'd by age, To glance on its mirrors again ; To gfido o'er the clouds of ad verity's page — They seem not so desolate then. As thu tempest brings calm ; :i* tho hoar fiest the spring ; As the d.iw ning dnpeises in day j So the sun and the shade of vicissitude fling A beautiful light on our way ; And passion and rapture, when tempev'd by thought, Jo trace but of happiness leave ; •n grief, whenreniember'd, is tranquilly taught low vain — how ungrateful — to grieve. /s briers and roses — its gladness and gloom — I'} they vanish together? — oh no ! 1 ■ flowrets we pluck, and condense tbeir perfume, The weeds to the desert we tlnow. i. k > the bee, our thoughts fly o'ei the field*- of the p.ist, Finding sweets whensoever they roam; V: '-\* wandei through sunsliine andstoim. and at lust " n>' naught but their hone\ r at homo.