THE RIVER OF LIFE.
The more we live, more brief appear Our life's succeeding- stages ; A day to childhood .seems a year, And yours like pa-sing ages. The gladsome current of our youth, Ere passion yet disoi dors, Steals lingering like u river smooth Along its grassy bordeis. But as the care'vorn cheek grows wan, And sorrow's shafts fly thicker, Ye, stars that measure life to man, Why seen) your courses quicker ? "When jnyshavelost their bloom and breath, And lite iUelf is vapid, "Why, as we near t!ie Falls of Death, Feel we its tide more rapid ? It ma}' be strange, yet who would change Time's course t.j slower speeding, When one by one our friends are gone And left our bosoms bleed ing. Heaven gives our "yea is of fading strength Indemnifying fleetne^s ; And those of youth a length Proportioned to their sweetness,
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Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 352, 20 March 1889, Page 8
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144THE RIVER OF LIFE. Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 352, 20 March 1889, Page 8
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