"BOAST NOT THYSELF OF TO-MORROW," OR THE MORNING AND THE EVENING.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 706, 23 December 1876, Page 2 (Supplement)

"BOAST NOT THYSELF OF TO-MORROW," OR THE MORNING AND THE EVENING.

Ah ! which of us can read aright life's strange, hfo's mystic chart ? Can o'er tho futuro glance, and in its secret biar a p'vrt ? Can trace tho shado-vy outline of e'ep one, o'en one b/ief (\a,v, And dare to breaths of what may bp ere it hath pasied awa.y ? * The brave young heart thit watched at dawn anV'itioVs glowing star, With oirnest purpoae ttuiUq4, mt !•»•"" J aught might its dreaming • r ' a Ere .teal, the «olcm* 9VBatld 'a io ; hadow Hashed in » shalowy prasonoa waibs ; the brave young heart is still ! Tho heart that felt so rich at dawn, with hope aud love beat high, Ere night, hath saeu its waaLh take wing, hath soon its fond hopes die ; And oh, how fnr aw«y it seems, that morn bo bright and fair, And oh, how strangely changed since then, th« aspeol earth doth wear ! The lonely heart, tha weary heart, wora with life's ceaseless care, Each jhertshod dream, eaoh noble aim, but ending in dospiir, Ere yet upjn the western skio? another sunsot g'otvs, Krom eanhly gloom, and pain afir hath reached death's atiil rcpo3e. We griovd tliit o'er the thing 3 of earth, fair, beautiful, and bright, Changes must pass, and mviy a trace of joy, and bjauty bright ; We gusve that hopes aud dreams depart, that lova doth fade and die, That wealth gives plaoe to poverty, that ■mild gives place to ligh. Yet, what though change comes thus to all, ! tho lonoly, and the sad, Though time brings change to all, to all, the young, the gay, the glad, ' Tis well the faturo'a eheqaered lot in hid* den from the mind, ( Tis 4 well its leoreb pago remaiaeth dim, and undefined. Hemotrop*.