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S. Ogilvie - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most -other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions -whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of -the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at -www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - -Title: The Album Writer's Friend - Comprising More Than Three Hundred Choice Selections of - Poetry and Prose, Suitable for Writing in Autograph Albums, - Valentines, Birthday, Christmas and New Year Cards. - -Author: J. S. Ogilvie - -Release Date: October 30, 2016 [EBook #53404] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ALBUM WRITER'S FRIEND *** - - - - -Produced by MFR, ellinora and the Online Distributed -Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was -produced from images generously made available by The -Internet Archive) - - - - - - -</pre> - - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div>Transcriber Notes</div> - </div> -</div> - - <ul class='ul_1'> - <li>Obvious typos and punctuation errors corrected. Inconsistencies in spelling and - hyphenation left as in original. - </li> - <li class='c000'>In the original Table of Contents, the Humorous and - Birthday Verses chapters were listed with the correct page number, but out of order. - They have been put in the correct order. - </li> - <li class='c000'>The book advertisement at the end uses a right pointing - hand character. If the device font does not support this character, ☞, it may not appear - correctly. - </li> - <li class='c000'>Use of small capitals at the beginning of verses made - consistent. - </li> - </ul> -<div class='pbb'> - <hr class='pb c000' /> -</div> - -<div class='figcenter id001'> -<img src='images/cover.jpg' alt='book cover' class='ig001' /> -</div> -<div class='pbb'> - <hr class='pb c000' /> -</div> - -<div> - <h1 class='c001'><span class='small'>THE</span><br />ALBUM WRITER’S<br />FRIEND.</h1> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> -<div class='nf-center c000'> - <div><span class='xsmall'>COMPRISING MORE THAN</span></div> - <div class='c000'><span class='sc'>Three Hundred Choice Selections of</span></div> - <div><span class='sc'>Poetry and Prose</span>,</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class="centerwide"> -<span class='small'>SUITABLE FOR WRITING IN AUTOGRAPH ALBUMS, VALENTINES, -BIRTHDAY, CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR CARDS.</span> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div>ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b c000'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in6'>Our lives are albums, written through</div> - <div class='line in6'>With good or ill, with false or true,</div> - <div class='line'>And as the blessed angels turn the pages of our years,</div> - <div class='line'>God grant that they may read the good with smiles,</div> - <div class='line in6'>And blot the ill with tears.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> -<div class='nf-center c000'> - <div>COMPILED BY J. S. OGILVIE.</div> - <div class='c002'><span class='sc'>New York</span>:</div> - <div>J. S. OGILVIE AND COMPANY,</div> - <div>25 Rose Street.</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='pbb'> - <hr class='pb c000' /> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> -<div class='nf-center c003'> - <div><span class='sc'>Copyright</span></div> - <div><span class='fss'>1881.</span></div> - <div><span class='sc'>By J. S. Ogilvie.</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='pbb'> - <hr class='pb c000' /> -</div> - -<div class='chapter'> - <h2 class='c004'>PREFACE.</h2> -</div> - -<p class='c005'><span class='sc'>Who</span> among the readers of this preface has not been -invited to write a few words of sentiment in the Album of -a friend? As an aid to the many thousands who have -received this invitation, and have not known what to -write, we offer this collection of choice verse and prose, -as an aid to them and all others, with the hope that our -labor shall not have been spent in vain, nor be altogether -unappreciated. Great care has been taken to procure as -many <em>original pieces</em> as possible. Many choice verses -suitable for Birthday, Christmas and New-Year celebrations, -have been added; which, with the collection of -articles embracing sentiment, affection, humor, and -miscellany, is offered to a generous public by</p> - -<div class='c006'><span class='sc'>The Compiler</span>.</div> -<div class='pbb'> - <hr class='pb c000' /> -</div> - -<div class='chapter'> - <h2 class='c004'>CONTENTS.</h2> -</div> -<table class='table0' summary=''> - <tr> - <th class='c007'></th> - <th class='c008'>PAGE</th> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c009'><span class='sc'>Dedication Verses</span>,</td> - <td class='c008'><a href='#Page_5'>5</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c009'><span class='sc'>Sentiment and Affection</span>,</td> - <td class='c008'><a href='#Page_9'>9</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c009'><span class='sc'>Miscellaneous</span>,</td> - <td class='c008'><a href='#Page_27'>27</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c009'><span class='sc'>Esteem and Confidence</span>,</td> - <td class='c008'><a href='#Page_45'>45</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c009'><span class='sc'>Birthday Verses</span>,</td> - <td class='c008'><a href='#Page_49'>49</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c009'><span class='sc'>Humorous</span>,</td> - <td class='c008'><a href='#Page_53'>53</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c009'><span class='sc'>Christmas and New Year</span>,</td> - <td class='c008'><a href='#Page_57'>57</a></td> - </tr> -</table> -<div class='pbb'> - <hr class='pb c000' /> -</div> - -<div><span class='pageno' id='Page_5'>5</span></div> -<div class='faux'> - -<div class='chapter'> - <h2 class='c004'>DEDICATION VERSES<br /> <br />SUITABLE FOR INSCRIPTION ON TITLE PAGES OF ALBUMS.</h2> -</div> - -</div> -<div class='figcenter id002'> -<img src='images/image005.jpg' alt='DEDICATION VERSES - SUITABLE FOR INSCRIPTION ON TITLE PAGES OF ALBUMS.' class='ig001' /> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b c002'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Go</span> forth, thou little volume,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Like Noah’s faithful dove,</div> - <div class='line'>And bring to darling ----</div> - <div class='line in2'>An olive leaf of love.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>My</span> Album’s open! Come and see!</div> - <div class='line'>What! Won’t you waste a line on me?</div> - <div class='line'>Write but a thought, a word or two,</div> - <div class='line'>That Memory may revert to you.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>To My Friends</span>:—</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in8'><span class='sc'>My</span> Album is a garden spot</div> - <div class='line in10'>Where all my friends may sow,</div> - <div class='line in8'>Where thorns and thistles flourish not,</div> - <div class='line in10'>But flowers alone may grow.</div> - <div class='line in8'>With smiles for sunshine, tears for showers,</div> - <div class='line in8'>I’ll water, watch and guard these flowers.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_6'>6</span><span class='sc'>Go</span> forth, thou little volume,</div> - <div class='line in2'>I leave thee to thy fate;</div> - <div class='line'>To love and friendship truly</div> - <div class='line in2'>Thy leaves I dedicate.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Go</span>, Album! range the gay parterre;</div> - <div class='line in2'>From gem to gem, from flower to flower,</div> - <div class='line'>Select with taste and cull with care,</div> - <div class='line'>And bring your offering, fresh and rare,</div> - <div class='line in2'>To this sweet maiden’s bower!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in8'><span class='sc'>When</span> years elapse,</div> - <div class='line in8'>It may, perhaps,</div> - <div class='line in4'>Delight us to review these scraps,</div> - <div class='line'>And live again ’mid scenes so gay,</div> - <div class='line'>That Time’s rough hand has swept away;</div> - <div class='line'>For when the eye, bedimmed with age,</div> - <div class='line'>Shall rest upon each treasured page,</div> - <div class='line in8'>Those pleasant hours</div> - <div class='line in8'>That once were ours</div> - <div class='line in4'>Shall come again, like Autumn flowers,</div> - <div class='line'>To bloom and smile upon us here</div> - <div class='line'>When all things else seem sad and drear;</div> - <div class='line'>’Twill tune our hearts and make them sing,</div> - <div class='line'>And turn our Autumn into Spring!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Go</span>, little book, thy destined course pursue,</div> - <div class='line'>Collect memorials of the just and true,</div> - <div class='line'>And beg of every friend so near</div> - <div class='line'>Some token of remembrance dear.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'><span class='pageno' id='Page_7'>7</span><span class='sc'>As</span> life flows on from day to day,</div> - <div class='line in4'>And this, your book, soon fills,</div> - <div class='line in2'>How many may be far away</div> - <div class='line in4'>From treasured vales and hills?</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>But there is joy in future time</div> - <div class='line in2'>To turn the pages o’er,</div> - <div class='line'>And see within a name or rhyme</div> - <div class='line in2'>From one you’ll see no more.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Life</span> is a volume,</div> - <div class='line in2'>From youth to old age,</div> - <div class='line'>Each year forms a chapter,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Each day is a page.</div> - <div class='line'>May none be more charming,</div> - <div class='line in2'>More womanly (manly) true,</div> - <div class='line'>Than that, pure and noble,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Sketched yearly by you.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Many</span> kind wishes will be written here,</div> - <div class='line'>And none more sincere than mine.</div> - <div class='line'>But----</div> - <div class='line'>Words are lighter than the cloud-foam</div> - <div class='line in2'>Of the restless ocean’s spray;</div> - <div class='line'>Vainer than the trembling shadow</div> - <div class='line in2'>That the next hour steals away.</div> - <div class='line'>By the fall of summer raindrops</div> - <div class='line in2'>Is the air as deeply stirred,</div> - <div class='line'>And the roseleaf that we tread on</div> - <div class='line in2'>Will outlive a word.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_8'>8</span><span class='sc'>We</span> may write our names in Albums;</div> - <div class='line'>We may trace them in the sand;</div> - <div class='line'>We may chisel them in marble,</div> - <div class='line'>With a firm and skillful hand;</div> - <div class='line'>But the pages soon are sullied,</div> - <div class='line'>Soon each name will fade away;</div> - <div class='line'>Every monument will crumble,</div> - <div class='line'>Like all earthy hopes, decay.</div> - <div class='line'>But, dear friend, there is an Album,</div> - <div class='line'>Full of leaves of snowy white,</div> - <div class='line'>Where no name is ever tarnished,</div> - <div class='line'>But forever pure and bright.</div> - <div class='line'>In that Book of Life, God’s Album,</div> - <div class='line'>May your name be penned with care</div> - <div class='line'>And may all who here may write,</div> - <div class='line'>Have their names forever there.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='figcenter id002'> -<img src='images/image008.jpg' alt='decorative bar' class='ig001' /> -</div> -<div class='pbb'> - <hr class='pb c000' /> -</div> - -<div><span class='pageno' id='Page_9'>9</span></div> -<div class='faux'> - -<div class='chapter'> - <h2 class='c004'>SENTIMENT and AFFECTION</h2> -</div> - -</div> -<div class='figcenter id002'> -<img src='images/image009.jpg' alt='SENTIMENT and AFFECTION' class='ig001' /> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b c002'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Peace</span> be around thee, wherever thou rovest;</div> - <div class='line in2'>May life be for thee one summer’s day;</div> - <div class='line'>And all that thou wish, and all that thou lovest,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Come smiling around thy summer way.</div> - <div class='line'>If sorrow e’er this calm should break,</div> - <div class='line in2'>May even thy tears pass off so lightly,</div> - <div class='line'>Like spring showers, they will only make</div> - <div class='line in2'>The smiles that follow shine more brightly.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<p class='c011'><span class='sc'>May</span> the chain of friendship formed by the links which -are dropped here, serve to unite you more closely in spirit -with the friends who have worked it.</p> - -<p class='c011'>May each link be brought to a white heat in the fires of -Love; and, forged on the anvils of Truth, may they be -strong as iron, yet light as air: keeping you bravely to -the duties of Life. And when the chain of human bondage -shall be broken, may they become flowers of eternal -brightness in the gardens from whence cometh exceeding -peace.</p> - -<div class='prosetb'> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Our</span> lives are albums, written through</div> - <div class='line'>With good or ill—with false or true—</div> - <div class='line'>And, as the blessed angels turn</div> - <div class='line'>The pages of our years,</div> - <div class='line'>God grant they read the good with smiles,</div> - <div class='line in4'>And blot the bad with tears.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<p class='c011'><span class='pageno' id='Page_10'>10</span><span class='sc'>The</span> gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man -perfected without adversity.</p> - -<div class='prosetb'> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -</div> - -<p class='c011'><span class='sc'>Time</span> advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like -the swiftest current.</p> - -<div class='prosetb'> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>What’s</span> the use of always fretting</div> - <div class='line in2'>At the trials we shall find</div> - <div class='line'>Ever strewn along our pathway—</div> - <div class='line in2'>Travel on, and never mind.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Life</span> giveth unto each his space,</div> - <div class='line in2'>A span of earth, an arch of sky,</div> - <div class='line'>And unto each a several grace—</div> - <div class='line in2'>To each a separate destiny.</div> - <div class='line'>And some were born to win and spend,</div> - <div class='line'>And some to love unto the end.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'><span class='sc'>There</span> is another album</div> - <div class='line'>Filled with leaves of spotless white,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Where no name is ever tarnished,</div> - <div class='line'>But forever pure and bright.</div> - <div class='line in2'>In the Book of Life—God’s album—</div> - <div class='line'>May your name be penned with care,</div> - <div class='line in2'>And may all who here have written,</div> - <div class='line'>Write their names forever there.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<p class='c011'><span class='sc'>Daily</span> we write our autographs on the minds and -hearts of those around us.</p> - -<div><span class='pageno' id='Page_11'>11</span></div> -<div class='prosetb'> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -</div> - -<p class='c011'>“<span class='sc'>Poor</span> is the friendless master of a world. A world -in purchase for a friend, is gain.”</p> - -<div class='prosetb'> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>So</span> slight a favor ’tis you crave,</div> - <div class='line in2'>That I can scarce refuse compliance;</div> - <div class='line'>Nor shall I use the page you gave,</div> - <div class='line in2'>To set your champions at defiance.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Dear lady, vainly awed, I praise</div> - <div class='line in2'>That dimpled hand I pressed at parting;</div> - <div class='line'>Or those dark eyes, beneath whose gaze</div> - <div class='line in2'>A cupid lurks equipped for darting.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Nor can I hope to lightly touch</div> - <div class='line in2'>On charms so oft the theme of lovers;</div> - <div class='line'>To add another, while so much</div> - <div class='line in2'>That beautiful about thee hovers.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>I can but add one little pearl</div> - <div class='line in2'>To all the gems about thee scattered;</div> - <div class='line'>And say again, sweet, artless girl,</div> - <div class='line in2'>That all thy poets have not flattered.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>I have</span> tried for a week, and vainly I seek</div> - <div class='line in2'>Words of wisdom to write to you here;</div> - <div class='line'>So, wishing you life free from sorrow and strife,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Nor wanting in friends and good cheer,</div> - <div class='line'>With health—perhaps wealth—</div> - <div class='line in8'>Love better than self,</div> - <div class='line'>And Truth, far the best, to the end;</div> - <div class='line in8'>Since content it maintains</div> - <div class='line in8'>While existence remains,</div> - <div class='line'>I subscribe myself, Truly, your friend.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_12'>12</span><span class='sc'>Strength</span> for to-day, in house and home,</div> - <div class='line in2'>To practice forbearance sweetly;</div> - <div class='line'>To scatter kind words and loving deeds,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Still trusting in God completely.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<p class='c011'><span class='sc'>A volume</span> of this kind, it is supposable, will be more -or less frequently referred to, in future years, to revive -fading recollections and recall pleasant associations; and, -therefore, though it is so easy to moralize, it seems eminently -fitting that helpful suggestions should accompany -familiar autographs.</p> - -<p class='c011'>Let me say, then, that while in your youth a favorable -combination of circumstances permits so much of happiness, -the conditions of its enjoyment cannot always -remain as now.</p> - -<p class='c011'>As the responsibilities, at present borne for you, shall -come to rest on your own shoulders, and the darker -shades of life’s history are unfolded, you will find the -peace, which floweth like a river, only in the degree in -which you resolutely perform every known duty; and, -forgetting your own wants—whether fancied or real—devote -your thoughts, as well as your energies, to making -the society in which you move, happier for your being.</p> - -<p class='c011'>That you may indulge in no selfish ease; but bestow, -as well as enjoy, a full share of the pleasures of time, and -afterward receive a crown of glory, is the earnest wish of -your friend—</p> - -<div class='prosetb'> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>I would</span> that I could express my mind</div> - <div class='line'>To you, dear friend, in scribbling some rhyme;</div> - <div class='line'>But you know my failing as well as I,</div> - <div class='line'>And you’d better get another to try.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<p class='c011'><span class='pageno' id='Page_13'>13</span><span class='sc'>That</span> one who can work right on, quietly waiting for -recognition, if it come: if not, yet right on, is the true -nobleman.</p> - -<div class='prosetb'> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Dost</span> thou know, love, that thy smile</div> - <div class='line'>Makes the whole world bright for me?</div> - <div class='line in2'>Just as sunrise pours a sudden</div> - <div class='line'>Purple glory on the sea.</div> - <div class='line in2'>Ah! had I that power, ever</div> - <div class='line'>Should the world look bright to thee.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>I know</span> not what to write about,</div> - <div class='line in2'>So many themes are pressing;</div> - <div class='line'>All good enough in very truth,</div> - <div class='line in2'>But quite unprepossessing:</div> - <div class='line'>Each moment of thy future life,</div> - <div class='line'>Live holy, whether maid or wife.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>And let it be thy constant care,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Midst earthly joy and sorrow,</div> - <div class='line'>By watchfulness and fervent prayer,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Each this day and to-morrow,</div> - <div class='line'>To be prepared when Christ shall come,</div> - <div class='line'>His heaven to make thy final home.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Oh</span>, those eyes! so calm, serene—</div> - <div class='line'>Sweetest eyes were ever seen.</div> - <div class='line'>Will the woes of coming years</div> - <div class='line'>Ever shadow them with tears?</div> - <div class='line'>Shall my life the sunshine own,</div> - <div class='line'>That last night upon me shone,</div> - <div class='line'>When, beneath the summer skies,</div> - <div class='line'>Beamed on me those brown, brown eyes?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<p class='c011'><span class='pageno' id='Page_14'>14</span><span class='sc'>These</span> little souvenirs possess not their greatest value -when first written; but as time, with scythe in hand, -passes along, and we are left standing, we are not the -same, but these lines remain. Some, to cheer the saddened -by awakening slumbering memories of better -things; and others serving as guide-boards on the road -to eternity.</p> - -<div class='prosetb'> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>And</span> thou, too, whosoe’er thou art,</div> - <div class='line in2'>That readest this brief psalm,</div> - <div class='line'>As one by one thy hopes depart,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Be resolute and calm.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>O fear not in a world like this,</div> - <div class='line in2'>And thou shalt know e’re long—</div> - <div class='line'>Know how sublime a thing it is</div> - <div class='line in2'>To suffer and be strong.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Press</span> on! our life is not a dream</div> - <div class='line'>Though often such its mazes seem.</div> - <div class='line'>We were not born to live at ease—</div> - <div class='line'>Ourselves alone to aid and please</div> - <div class='line'>To each a daily task is given;</div> - <div class='line'>A labor that shall fit for heaven,</div> - <div class='line'>When duty calls, let love grow warm,</div> - <div class='line'>Amid the sunshine or the storm;</div> - <div class='line'>With faith, life’s trials boldly breast</div> - <div class='line'>Then come a conqueror to thy rest.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<p class='c011'><span class='sc'>As</span> you travel through life, scatter kind words and -gentle deeds; in so doing, you will enrich your soul. -Withhold them, and it tends to poverty.</p> - -<div><span class='pageno' id='Page_15'>15</span></div> -<div class='prosetb'> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -</div> - -<p class='c011'><span class='sc'>May</span> your life be like the day—more beautiful in the -evening; like the summer—aglow with promise; and, -like the autumn, rich with the golden sheaves, where -good works and deeds have ripened on the field.</p> - -<div class='prosetb'> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Let</span> the road be rough and dreary,</div> - <div class='line in2'>And its end far out of sight;</div> - <div class='line'>Foot it bravely—strong or weary;—</div> - <div class='line in2'>Trust in God, and do the right.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in2'><span class='sc'>Life</span> is but a day, at best,</div> - <div class='line'>Sprung from night, in darkness lost;</div> - <div class='line in2'>Hope not sunshine every hour;</div> - <div class='line'>Fear not—clouds will always lower.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>All</span> the paths of faith, tho’ severed wide,</div> - <div class='line'>O’er which the feet of prayerful reverence pass</div> - <div class='line'>Meet at the gate of Paradise at last.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>If</span> I wake, or if I sleep,</div> - <div class='line'>Still the memory I keep</div> - <div class='line'>Of the tender light that lies</div> - <div class='line'>In the depths of those brown eyes.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Be</span> blessings scattered o’er thy way,</div> - <div class='line in2'>My gladsome, joyous, laughing sprite;</div> - <div class='line'>Be thy whole life one summer’s day</div> - <div class='line in8'>Without the night.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_16'>16</span><span class='sc'>On</span> this leaf, in memory prest,</div> - <div class='line'>May my name forever rest.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>On</span> this page I’ll write, simply to indite</div> - <div class='line'>My name as your friend.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>May</span> thy life happy be,</div> - <div class='line'>Is my dear wish for thee.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>It</span> never pays to fret and growl</div> - <div class='line in2'>When fortune seems our foe,</div> - <div class='line'>The better bred will push ahead</div> - <div class='line in2'>And strike the braver blow;</div> - <div class='line in6'>For luck is work,</div> - <div class='line in6'>And those who shirk</div> - <div class='line in2'>Should not lament their doom,</div> - <div class='line in6'>But yield the play,</div> - <div class='line in6'>And clear the way,</div> - <div class='line in2'>That better men have room.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Desire</span> not to live long, but well;</div> - <div class='line'>How long we live, not years, but actions, tell.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Meanness</span> shun, and all its train;</div> - <div class='line'>Goodness seek, and life is gain.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>A beautiful</span> life ends not in death.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_17'>17</span><span class='sc'>Round</span> went the autograph; hither it came,</div> - <div class='line'>For me to write in; so here’s my name.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Passing</span> through life’s field of action,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Lest we part before its end,</div> - <div class='line'>Take within your modest volume,</div> - <div class='line in2'>This memento from a friend.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>We</span> meet and part—the world is wide;</div> - <div class='line'>We journey onward side by side</div> - <div class='line'>A little while, and then again</div> - <div class='line'>Our paths diverge. A little pain—</div> - <div class='line'>A silent yearning of the heart</div> - <div class='line'>For what has grown of life a part;</div> - <div class='line'>A shadow passing o’er the sun,</div> - <div class='line'>Then gone, and light again has come.</div> - <div class='line'>We meet and part, and then forget;</div> - <div class='line'>And life holds blessings for us yet.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>When</span> things don’t go to suit you,</div> - <div class='line in2'>And the world seems upside down,</div> - <div class='line'>Don’t waste your time in fretting,</div> - <div class='line in2'>But drive away the frown.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Old friends and true friends!</div> - <div class='line'>Don’t talk to me of new friends;</div> - <div class='line in6'>The old are the best,</div> - <div class='line in6'>Who stand the test,</div> - <div class='line'>Who book their name as <em>through</em> friends.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<p class='c011'><span class='pageno' id='Page_18'>18</span><span class='sc'>May</span> your coffee and slanders against you be ever the -same—without grounds.</p> - -<div class='prosetb'> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>The</span> world is full of fools.</div> - <div class='line in2'>And he who would none view,</div> - <div class='line'>Must shut himself in a cave,</div> - <div class='line in2'>And break his mirror, too.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Methinks</span> long years have flown,</div> - <div class='line in2'>And, sitting in her old arm-chair,</div> - <div class='line'>---- has older grown.</div> - <div class='line in2'>With silver sprinkled in her hair,</div> - <div class='line'>Her album thus she holds,</div> - <div class='line in2'>And turns its many pages o’er,</div> - <div class='line'>And wonders if it still contains</div> - <div class='line in2'>The memories of yore.</div> - <div class='line'>As o’er these pages thus she runs,</div> - <div class='line in2'>With many a sigh and kiss,</div> - <div class='line'>Then suddenly she stops and says,</div> - <div class='line in2'>“Who could have written this?”</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>It</span> never pays to wreck the health</div> - <div class='line in2'>In drudging after gain;</div> - <div class='line'>And he is sold who thinks that gold</div> - <div class='line in2'>The cheapest bought with pain.</div> - <div class='line in6'>An humble lot,</div> - <div class='line in6'>A cosey cot,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Have tempted even kings;</div> - <div class='line in6'>For station high,</div> - <div class='line in6'>That wealth will buy,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Not oft contentment brings.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_19'>19</span><span class='sc'>Remember</span> me, is all I ask</div> - <div class='line'>And, if remembrance be a task,</div> - <div class='line in8'>Forget me.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>----, life is all before you,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Stretched out in its misty sheen</div> - <div class='line'>And the future, though now hidden</div> - <div class='line in2'>Holds much joy for thee, I ween.</div> - <div class='line'>Why, then, seek to know what’s coming?</div> - <div class='line in2'>It is forming day by day</div> - <div class='line'>But your heart, in blind out-reaching,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Makes to-morrow of to-day.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“Life is real—life is earnest;”</div> - <div class='line in2'>And the heroine in the strife</div> - <div class='line'>Is the one who leaves the future—</div> - <div class='line in2'>Living but the present life;—</div> - <div class='line'>Lives it truly, nobly, grandly;</div> - <div class='line in2'>Thus prepares for coming fate;</div> - <div class='line'>Strives to make her living perfect;—</div> - <div class='line in2'>Learns to labor and to wait.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>The</span> violet is for faithfulness,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Which in me shall abide:</div> - <div class='line'>Hoping, likewise, from your heart</div> - <div class='line in2'>You will not let it slide.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>This</span> is thine album. May it be</div> - <div class='line'>A source of happiness to thee.</div> - <div class='line'>And may each page that’s written o’er,</div> - <div class='line'>Be better than the one before.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_20'>20</span><span class='sc'>’Tis</span> a terrible fate, my dear miss,</div> - <div class='line'>To be asked to write in a book like this;</div> - <div class='line'>For, scratch my head as hard as I may—</div> - <div class='line in6'>I’ve such a skull—</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>And if I try to moralize,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Or vent my thoughts in sentiment,</div> - <div class='line'>Or attempt to laud you to the skies,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Or spread myself on compliment,</div> - <div class='line in6'>I’m so awful dull,</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>That my efforts would prove futility;</div> - <div class='line in2'>For the sex of your kind, are of that turn of mind,</div> - <div class='line'>That morals, verse and flattery,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Have to you been so oft defined,</div> - <div class='line in6'>You are full.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>If rhyming I try, adorable Miss,</div> - <div class='line in2'>The first I think of, is dear little Kiss,</div> - <div class='line'>Or some such nonsense as connubial bliss,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Or changing your title “Mrs.” from “Miss;”</div> - <div class='line in6'>But that’s prosaical.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>To give you advice, I’d never presume;—</div> - <div class='line in2'>Incompetence may be the reason for that;—</div> - <div class='line'>To wish you long life and a blest happy home</div> - <div class='line in2'>Is aged and stale, exhausted and flat,</div> - <div class='line in6'>And excruciatingly formal.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Now, what to do I do not know,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Or how to make my paragraph;</div> - <div class='line'>So I’ll doff my hat, and make my bow</div> - <div class='line in2'>And send this as my autograph.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<p class='c011'><span class='sc'>May</span> there be just clouds enough o’er your life to cause -a glorious sunset.</p> - -<div><span class='pageno' id='Page_21'>21</span></div> -<div class='prosetb'> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>That</span> every kindly wish and thought,</div> - <div class='line in2'>By friends expressed within these pages,</div> - <div class='line'>Be yours, and trials common to us all</div> - <div class='line in2'>May cross your path by “easy stages.”</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Remember</span> me when far away,</div> - <div class='line in2'>And only half awake;</div> - <div class='line'>Remember me on your wedding-day,</div> - <div class='line in2'>And send a slice of cake.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>When</span> worth and beauty prompt the line,</div> - <div class='line'>Perhaps a pen as poor as mine</div> - <div class='line in6'>May be forgiven</div> - <div class='line'>To try and write of things divine,</div> - <div class='line in6'>And think of heaven!</div> - <div class='line'>But pause, rash verse! and don’t abuse</div> - <div class='line'>A bashful maiden’s ear with news</div> - <div class='line in6'>Of her own beauty!</div> - <div class='line'>And yet no other theme I’ll choose,</div> - <div class='line in6'>Or think a duty!</div> - <div class='line'>So, then, for fear I might offend,</div> - <div class='line'>I’ll say, <em>God bless her!</em>—and thus end.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>The</span> earth can boast no purer tie,</div> - <div class='line in2'>No brighter, richer gem,</div> - <div class='line'>No jewel of a lovelier dye,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Than Friendship’s diadem.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Then may this ray of light divine</div> - <div class='line in2'>Ne’er from our bosoms fade;</div> - <div class='line'>But may it on our pathway shine,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Till death our hearts invade.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_22'>22</span>---- is your name,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Single is your station;</div> - <div class='line'>Happy be the little man</div> - <div class='line in2'>That makes the alteration.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Oh!</span> love is such a strange affair;</div> - <div class='line'>So strange to all.</div> - <div class='line in4'>It cometh from above</div> - <div class='line in4'>And lighteth like a dove</div> - <div class='line in24'>On some.</div> - <div class='line in4'>But some it never hits</div> - <div class='line in4'>Unless it gives them fits.</div> - <div class='line in24'>Oh, hum.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Thy</span> cheerful, gentle ways, I do admire:</div> - <div class='line'>Thy future, to be happy, I greatly desire;</div> - <div class='line'>Thy trusting confidence, may I require;</div> - <div class='line'>Thy firm friend to be, will I aspire.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>As</span> a slight token of esteem,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Accept these lines from me;</div> - <div class='line'>So plain and simple, they do seem</div> - <div class='line in2'>Unworthy such as thee.</div> - <div class='line'>But soon these traced lines will fade</div> - <div class='line in2'>And disappear—’tis their doom.</div> - <div class='line'>May you, unlike them, be arrayed</div> - <div class='line in2'>In a perpetual bloom.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>In</span> memory’s wreath may one bud be entwined for me.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<p class='c011'><span class='pageno' id='Page_23'>23</span><span class='sc'>We</span> are all placed here to do something. It is for <em>us</em>, -and not for <em>others</em>, to find out what that something is, -and then, with all the energy of which we are capable, -honestly and prayerfully to be about our business.</p> - -<div class='prosetb'> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Oh!</span> think of me some day</div> - <div class='line'>When I am far away;</div> - <div class='line'>I’ll pray thy days be long</div> - <div class='line'>And joyous as the song</div> - <div class='line'>Of sweet birds singing near,</div> - <div class='line'>Thy heart with love to cheer.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>May</span> joy thy spirit fill,</div> - <div class='line in2'>All care and sorrow cease;</div> - <div class='line'>Remember ’tis His will</div> - <div class='line in2'>Who hath spoken, “Peace!”</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>In</span> fair and sunny beauty, or gray ’neath evening skies,</div> - <div class='line'>The purple hills from misty vales, upward to heaven rise:</div> - <div class='line'>Their rugged side we scarce can see o’er-decked with fern and heather,</div> - <div class='line'>That rings its scented violet bells through fair and stormy weather;</div> - <div class='line'>So may thy life be clothed with flowers, and breathe a purer air,</div> - <div class='line'>Fresh from the “everlasting hills,” knowing no grief or care,—</div> - <div class='line'>And if the sunny sky must pale, as pales the setting sun,</div> - <div class='line'>May it only show the stars are near, peeping out, one by one!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_24'>24</span><span class='sc'>These</span> few lines to you are tendered,</div> - <div class='line in2'>By a friend sincere and true;</div> - <div class='line'>Hoping but to be remembered</div> - <div class='line in2'>When I’m far away from you.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Work</span>, while yet the daylight shines,</div> - <div class='line in2'>With a loving heart and true,</div> - <div class='line'>For golden years are fleeting by,</div> - <div class='line in2'>And we are passing, too.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Wait not for to-morrow’s sun</div> - <div class='line in2'>To beam upon thy way,</div> - <div class='line'>For all that thou can’st call thine own,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Is in this <em>one to-day</em>.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Then learn to make the most of life—</div> - <div class='line in2'>Make glad each passing day—</div> - <div class='line'>For time will never bring thee back</div> - <div class='line in2'>The chances swept away.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Leave no tender word unsaid—</div> - <div class='line in2'>Do good while life shall last;—</div> - <div class='line'>You know the mill can never grind</div> - <div class='line in2'>With the <em>water that is past</em>.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Let not the hours we’ve spent together,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Go past as nothing, by;</div> - <div class='line'>Forget me not, e’en though you must</div> - <div class='line in2'>Remember with a sigh.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Thanksgiving-day</span> again is here,</div> - <div class='line in2'>And turkey is the leading question;</div> - <div class='line'>I wish, with heartiness sincere,</div> - <div class='line in2'>That you may have a good digestion.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_25'>25</span><span class='sc'>Though</span> many flowers have faded from my life,</div> - <div class='line in2'>And clouds obscure the brightness of its sky;</div> - <div class='line'>This have I learned: we can do much to make</div> - <div class='line in2'>Our lives a blessing and our words a power,</div> - <div class='line'>If what we find to do, for Christ’s dear sake,</div> - <div class='line in2'>We do with faithfulness, from hour to hour.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>It</span> may occur in after life</div> - <div class='line'>That you, I trust, a happy wife,</div> - <div class='line'>Will former happy hours retrace,</div> - <div class='line'>Recall each well-remembered face.</div> - <div class='line'>At such a moment I but ask—</div> - <div class='line'>I hope ’twill be a pleasant task—</div> - <div class='line'>That you’ll remember as a friend</div> - <div class='line'>One who’ll prove true e’en to the end.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>I saw</span> two clouds at morning,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Tinged by the morning sun,</div> - <div class='line'>And in the dawn they floated on</div> - <div class='line in2'>And mingled into one;</div> - <div class='line'>I thought that morning cloud was blest,</div> - <div class='line'>It moved so sweetly to the west.</div> - <div class='line'>Such be your gentle motion,</div> - <div class='line'>Till life’s last pulse shall beat,</div> - <div class='line'>And you float on in joy to meet</div> - <div class='line'>A calmer sea, where storms shall cease—</div> - <div class='line'>A purer sky, where all is peace.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>When</span> on this page you chance to look,</div> - <div class='line'>Just think of me and close the book.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_26'>26</span><span class='sc'>Be</span> a good girl, and you will be a true woman.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<p class='c011'><span class='sc'>May</span> thy darkest hours in life be well lighted with the -sunshine of contentment.</p> - -<div class='prosetb'> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Yours</span> sincerely—although merely—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>When</span> the golden sun is setting,</div> - <div class='line in2'>And your heart from care is free,</div> - <div class='line'>When o’er a thousand things you’re thinking,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Will you sometimes think of me?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>How</span> long we live, not years, but actions tell;</div> - <div class='line'>That man lives twice who lives the first life well.</div> - <div class='line'>Make then, while yet ye may, your God your friend.</div> - <div class='line'>Whom Christians worship, yet not comprehend.</div> - <div class='line'>The trust that’s given, guard; and to yourself be just;</div> - <div class='line'>For, live we how we can, yet die we must.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Live</span> well; how long or short, permit to Heaven;</div> - <div class='line'>They who forgive most, shall be most forgiven.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Soar</span> not too high to fall, but stoop to rise;</div> - <div class='line'>We masters grow of all that we despise.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Your</span> fate is but the common fate of all;</div> - <div class='line'>Unmingled joys here to no man befall.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='pbb'> - <hr class='pb c000' /> -</div> - -<div><span class='pageno' id='Page_27'>27</span></div> -<div class='faux'> - -<div class='chapter'> - <h2 class='c004'>MISCELLANEOUS.</h2> -</div> - -</div> -<div class='figcenter id002'> -<img src='images/image027.jpg' alt='MISCELLANEOUS.' class='ig001' /> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b c002'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>May</span> e’en thy failings lean to virtue’s side.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Hours</span> are golden links—God’s token—</div> - <div class='line'>Reaching heaven, but one by one;</div> - <div class='line'>Take them, lest the chain be broken</div> - <div class='line'>Ere thy pilgrimage be done.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>House</span> beautiful—your book, from end to end,</div> - <div class='line'>And every page a room to lodge a friend;</div> - <div class='line'>Fain would I enter with a seemly grace,</div> - <div class='line'>Attired and mannered as befits the place;</div> - <div class='line'>But best endeavor falls below the aim</div> - <div class='line'>And rests at last, content to leave a name.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>The</span> brave man is not he who feels no fear,</div> - <div class='line'>For that were stupid and irrational;</div> - <div class='line'>But, he whose noble soul its fear subdues.</div> - <div class='line'>And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_28'>28</span><span class='sc'>Fling</span> wide the portals of your heart!</div> - <div class='line'>Make it a temple set apart</div> - <div class='line'>From earthly use, for Heaven’s employ—</div> - <div class='line'>Adorned with prayer and love and joy;</div> - <div class='line'>So shall your Sovereign enter in</div> - <div class='line'>And new and noble life begin.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<p class='c011'><span class='sc'>We</span> could count time by heart-throbs; he most lives -who thinks most, speaks the noblest, acts the best.</p> - -<div class='prosetb'> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>We</span> ourselves shape the joys and fears</div> - <div class='line in2'>Of which the life to come is made,</div> - <div class='line'>And fill our future atmosphere</div> - <div class='line in2'>With sunshine or with shade.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>When</span> the name that I write here is dim on the page,</div> - <div class='line'>And the leaves of your album are yellow with age,</div> - <div class='line'>Still think of me kindly, and do not forget</div> - <div class='line'>That, wherever I am, I remember you yet.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>The</span> massive gates of circumstance</div> - <div class='line in2'>Are turned upon the slightest hinge,</div> - <div class='line'>And thus some seeming pettiest chance,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Oft gives to life its after tinge.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Oh</span>, for a home in Zululand, or Arctic regions cold,</div> - <div class='line'>A peasant’s cot or hermit’s hut, midst solitude untold,</div> - <div class='line'>With Kaffirs or with Hottentots, in Egypt or Leone—</div> - <div class='line'>’Twere bliss to live in <em>any</em> spot where albums are unknown.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_29'>29</span><span class='sc'>In</span> times of prosperity our friends are many,</div> - <div class='line'>But the time of adversity tries and proves them.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Gems</span> of price are deeply hidden,</div> - <div class='line in2'>’Neath the rugged rocks concealed;</div> - <div class='line'>What would ne’er come forth unbidden,</div> - <div class='line in2'>To thy search may be revealed.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>While</span> the fading flowers of pleasure,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Spring spontaneous from the soil,</div> - <div class='line'>Thou wilt find the harvest’s treasure</div> - <div class='line in2'>Yields alone to patient toil.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>If</span> recollections of friends brighten moments or sadness,</div> - <div class='line in2'>What a fund of delight is here treasured for thee!</div> - <div class='line'>If advice and kind wishes bring goodness and gladness,</div> - <div class='line in2'>How perfect and happy thy future must be.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>The</span> tissues of the Life to be—</div> - <div class='line in2'>We weave with colors all our own,</div> - <div class='line'>And in the field of Destiny,</div> - <div class='line in2'>We reap as we have sown.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<p class='c011'><span class='sc'>There</span> is seldom a line of glory written upon earth’s -face, but a line of suffering runs parallel with it; and -they that read the lustrous syllables of the one, and -stoop not to decipher the spotted and worn inscription of -the other, get the least half of the lesson that earth has to -give.</p> - -<div><span class='pageno' id='Page_30'>30</span></div> -<div class='prosetb'> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Leaf</span> green on ground of white,</div> - <div class='line'>My name, I fain would write</div> - <div class='line'>That you remember still</div> - <div class='line'>In June or in December chill,</div> - <div class='line in4'>We two are friends.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Oh</span>, wayward mortal who these books invented,</div> - <div class='line'>Why was’t thou not by some kind hand prevented?</div> - <div class='line'>And thereby kept from many a luckless swain,</div> - <div class='line'>The direful knowledge that he lacked a brain—</div> - <div class='line'>Lacked it, at least, where poetry was needed,</div> - <div class='line'>Like the poor wight who here has not succeeded.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Through</span> days of doubt and darkness,</div> - <div class='line in2'>In fear and trembling breath,</div> - <div class='line'>Through mists of sin and sorrow,</div> - <div class='line in2'>In tears and grief and death;</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Through days of light and gladness,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Through days of love and life,</div> - <div class='line'>Through smiles and joy and sunshine,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Through days with beauty rife;</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The Lord of life and glory,</div> - <div class='line in2'>The King of earth and sea,</div> - <div class='line'>The Lord who guarded Israel;</div> - <div class='line in2'>Keep watch, sweet friend, o’er thee.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Truth</span>—Freedom—Virtue—these have power;</div> - <div class='line'>If rightly cherished, to uphold, sustain,</div> - <div class='line'>And bless thy spirit, in its darkest hour.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_31'>31</span><span class='sc'>Thy</span> own trim, modest form,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Is always neatly clad,</div> - <div class='line'>Thou surely will make the tidiest wife</div> - <div class='line in2'>That ever husband had.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Among</span> the many friends who claim</div> - <div class='line in2'>A kind remembrance in thy heart,</div> - <div class='line'>I too, would add my simple name,</div> - <div class='line in10'>Among the rest.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>May</span> God’s mercy ever guide thee,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Safe o’er all thy thorny road;</div> - <div class='line'>And His grace what’er betide thee,</div> - <div class='line'>Lead thee home to His abode.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>The</span> large are not the sweetest flowers;</div> - <div class='line'>The long are not the happiest hours;</div> - <div class='line'>Much talk doth not much friendship tell;</div> - <div class='line'>Few words are best—I wish you well.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<p class='c011'><span class='sc'>Let</span> your life be like a snowflake, which leaves a -mark, but not a stain.</p> - -<div class='prosetb'> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Begirt</span> with roses of the royal June,</div> - <div class='line'>A resurrected day swings highest morn</div> - <div class='line'>In every year; and so through life I pray</div> - <div class='line'>Nay never failing changes, bring their day,</div> - <div class='line'>And flames of love in swinging censers rise</div> - <div class='line'>While all thy thoughts leads on toward the skies.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_32'>32</span><span class='sc'>Small</span> service is true service while it last;</div> - <div class='line in2'>Of friends, however humble, scorn not one:</div> - <div class='line'>The daisy, by the shadow that it cast,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Protects the lingering dew-drop from the sun.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<p class='c011'><span class='sc'>Make</span> good use of time, if thou lovest eternity; yesterday -cannot be recalled—to-morrow cannot be secured—to-day -only is thine, which, if once lost, is lost forever.</p> - -<div class='prosetb'> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -</div> - -<p class='c011'><span class='sc'>In</span> time we transact business for eternity; whatever, -therefore, we do now, should be done well.</p> - -<div class='prosetb'> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>May</span> each thought be pure, and sincere,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Addressed upon these spotless pages;</div> - <div class='line'>Reflections fond, they’ll always prove,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Youthful friend, through many ages.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<p class='c011'><span class='sc'>They</span> who have light in themselves, will not revolve as -satellites.</p> - -<div class='prosetb'> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Through</span> time we’ll change, and then,</div> - <div class='line in2'>This little book will somewhat bind us;</div> - <div class='line'>You’ll take it up, and think of me</div> - <div class='line in2'>And all the joys we’ve left behind us.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<p class='c011'><span class='sc'>As</span> the shadow of the sun is largest when his beams are -lowest, so we are always least when we make ourselves -the greatest.</p> - -<div><span class='pageno' id='Page_33'>33</span></div> -<div class='prosetb'> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Across</span> the page of spotless white</div> - <div class='line'>Friends trail the pen, and in our sight</div> - <div class='line'>Grow precious all the lines they write.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>As for some white-sailed ship at sea,</div> - <div class='line'>So, little book, my watch for thee;</div> - <div class='line'>Return with freight of love to me.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<p class='c011'><span class='sc'>Every</span> hour comes to us charged with duty, and the -moment it is past, returns to Heaven to register itself -how spent.</p> - -<div class='prosetb'> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>There’s</span> a Divinity that shapes our ends,</div> - <div class='line'>Rough-hew them how we will.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Our</span> eyes see all around in gloom or glow,</div> - <div class='line'>Hues of their own, fresh borrowed from the heart.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<p class='c011'><span class='sc'>Write</span> your name by kindness, love and mercy upon -the hearts of those you come in contact with, and you -will never be forgotten.</p> - -<div class='prosetb'> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Let</span> Fate do her worst; there are relics of joy,</div> - <div class='line'>Bright dreams of the past, she cannot destroy;</div> - <div class='line'>They come in the night-time of sorrow and care,</div> - <div class='line'>And bring back the features that joy used to wear.</div> - <div class='line'>Like the vase, in which roses have once been distilled,</div> - <div class='line'>You may break—you may shatter the vase, if you will;</div> - <div class='line'>But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<p class='c011'><span class='pageno' id='Page_34'>34</span><span class='sc'>If</span> you wish success in life, make perseverance your -bosom friend, experience your wise counsel, caution your -elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.</p> - -<div class='prosetb'> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Count</span> that day lost whose low descending sun</div> - <div class='line'>Views from thy hand no worthy action done.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>’Tis</span> but a trifle that you ask,</div> - <div class='line in2'>But this you will admit,</div> - <div class='line'>That trifles, more than greater tasks,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Will sometimes strain our wit.</div> - <div class='line'>I wish thee health, and wealth, and joy,</div> - <div class='line in2'>As others have before:</div> - <div class='line'>And were I in poetic mood,</div> - <div class='line in2'>I’d surely wish thee more.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<p class='c011'><span class='sc'>Our</span> greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in -rising every time we fall.</p> - -<div class='prosetb'> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Here’s</span> a sigh for those who love me,</div> - <div class='line in2'>And a smile for those who hate,</div> - <div class='line'>And whatever sky’s above me,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Here’s a heart for every fate.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>In</span> all thy humors, whether grave or mellow,</div> - <div class='line'>Thou art such a touchy, testy, pleasant fellow;</div> - <div class='line'>Hast so much wit, and mirth, and spleen, about thee,</div> - <div class='line'>There is no living with thee, nor without thee.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_35'>35</span><span class='sc'>May</span> you live in bliss, from sorrow away,</div> - <div class='line'>Having plenty laid up for a rainy day;</div> - <div class='line'>And when you are ready to settle in life,</div> - <div class='line'>May you find a good husband and make a good wife.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>I write</span> here a name which I hope shall be known</div> - <div class='line'>To all of the ages which follow my own.</div> - <div class='line'>‘How conceited!’ you say; but my lines shall remain;</div> - <div class='line'>’Tis my hope, you’ll discover, not I, that is vain.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Our</span> lives are albums; each new day’s a page</div> - <div class='line in2'>As spotless as the leaf on which I write.</div> - <div class='line'>Whene’er those books of ours shall be read,</div> - <div class='line in2'>May few unwise inscriptions meet the sight.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>On</span> the broad highway of action</div> - <div class='line'>Friends of worth are far and few;</div> - <div class='line'>But when one has proved her friendship,</div> - <div class='line'>Cling to her who clings to you.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Were</span> mine the power I’d twine for thee</div> - <div class='line in2'>A crown of jewels rare;</div> - <div class='line'>Each gem should be a kingdom,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Each pearl an humble prayer.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>There</span> are few friends in this wide world</div> - <div class='line'>That love is fond and true;</div> - <div class='line'>But ---- when you count them o’er</div> - <div class='line'>Place me among the few.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_36'>36</span><span class='sc'>There</span> is a small and simple flower</div> - <div class='line in2'>That twines around the humblest cot,</div> - <div class='line'>And in the sad and lonely hours</div> - <div class='line in2'>It whispers low: “Forget me not.”</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>When</span> asked in an album to write,</div> - <div class='line in2'>I feel quite inclined to refuse;</div> - <div class='line'>For what should I dare to indite</div> - <div class='line in2'>That would a young lady amuse?</div> - <div class='line'>Not wit, for I have none of that,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Nor romance—my fancy is tame;</div> - <div class='line'>And compliments sound so flat,</div> - <div class='line in2'>I’m forced to write merely my name.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>May</span> you always be happy,</div> - <div class='line in2'>And live at your ease;</div> - <div class='line'>Get a kind husband,</div> - <div class='line in2'>And do as you please.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>True</span> friends, like ivy and the wall,</div> - <div class='line'>Both stand together or together fall.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Beauty</span> is but a vain, a fleeting good,</div> - <div class='line in2'>A shining gloss that fadeth suddenly,</div> - <div class='line'>A flower that dies when almost in the bud,</div> - <div class='line in2'>A bright glass that breaketh suddenly;</div> - <div class='line'>A fleeting good, a glass, a gloss, a flower,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Lost, faded, broken, dead within the hour.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_37'>37</span><span class='sc'>May</span> happiness ever be thy lot,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Wherever thou shalt be;</div> - <div class='line'>And joy and pleasure light the spot</div> - <div class='line in2'>That may be home to thee.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>How</span> sweet to have a faithful friend,</div> - <div class='line in2'>In whom we can confide:</div> - <div class='line'>To bless us if we act aright,</div> - <div class='line in2'>And if we err to chide.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<p class='c011'><span class='sc'>Hope</span> the best, get ready for the worst, and take what -God sends.</p> - -<div class='prosetb'> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -</div> - -<p class='c011'><span class='sc'>Be</span> content with the lot God has marked out for you. -Love, honor and obey Him in all things, and your last -days will be peaceful and happy.</p> - -<div class='prosetb'> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -</div> - -<p class='c011'><span class='sc'>May</span> the morn of thy life be bright and joyous, the -noontide peaceful and happy, and the sunset gloriously -hopeful, is the wish of your friend.</p> - -<div class='prosetb'> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -</div> - -<p class='c011'><span class='sc'>Life</span>, Death and Immortality—these three—the first, -the Road—the second, the Gate. May you walk safely -the first, pass triumphantly the second, and rest forever -in the third.</p> - -<div class='prosetb'> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>May</span> the Angels twine for thee</div> - <div class='line'>A wreath of immortality.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_38'>38</span><span class='sc'>Yes</span>, ----, I will write my name</div> - <div class='line in2'>In here, as you request;</div> - <div class='line'>And, if to you its all the same,</div> - <div class='line'>I’ll add a line—though rather tame—</div> - <div class='line in2'>For Critics eyes, as my bequest.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>My wishes and my hopes for you,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Find glad expression here;</div> - <div class='line'>Although, indeed, it’s very true,</div> - <div class='line'>There is no room for all that’s due</div> - <div class='line in2'>To one we hold so dear.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Good health—first wish of all—</div> - <div class='line in2'>Of all God’s gifts the best;</div> - <div class='line'>A happy heart, that loves to call</div> - <div class='line'>On Him who notes the sparrow’s fall</div> - <div class='line in2'>And promises sweet rest.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Although beset by worldly care,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Fix all your hopes on Heaven,</div> - <div class='line'>And view by faith the glories fair,</div> - <div class='line'>Which, in that world beyond the air,</div> - <div class='line in2'>To faithful ones are given.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Although</span> I am advised not to write fast,</div> - <div class='line'>I hope the thought I would express may last.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>You</span> ask for your Album a rhyme;</div> - <div class='line in2'>With pleasure I hear and obey;</div> - <div class='line'>Refusal were folly or crime—</div> - <div class='line in2'>For who could to ---- say “nay?”</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_39'>39</span><span class='sc'>May</span> Heaven on you its choicest blessings shower—</div> - <div class='line'>Is the sincere wish of your friend.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Be</span> kind to all; be intimate with few;</div> - <div class='line'>And may the few be well chosen.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<p class='c011'><span class='sc'>Evils</span> in the journey of life are like the hills which -alarm travelers upon their road; they both appear great -in the distance, but when we approach them, we find -them far less insurmountable than we had conceived.</p> - -<div class='prosetb'> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Miss</span> ----! O Miss ----!</div> - <div class='line'>What can I write that’s new</div> - <div class='line'>Among so very many</div> - <div class='line'>Pretty compliments to you?</div> - <div class='line'>In poetry, I fear I’d fail—</div> - <div class='line'>I’m very sure I’d stammer—</div> - <div class='line'>You cannot drive the ponderous nail</div> - <div class='line'>With a small ten-cent tack hammer.</div> - <div class='line'>Since, then, so high I cannot soar,</div> - <div class='line'>Nor chirp notes like the lark,</div> - <div class='line'>Please cancel what I’ve said before,</div> - <div class='line'>I’ll simply make my mark.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<p class='c011'><span class='sc'>It</span> has been beautifully said: The water that flows -from a spring does not congeal in winter; and those sentiments -which flow from the heart cannot be chilled by -adversity.</p> - -<div><span class='pageno' id='Page_40'>40</span></div> -<div class='prosetb'> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Roses</span>, without thorns, for thee.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>I’ll</span> just write a few words here; so that when</div> - <div class='line'>You turn these and life’s pages o’er again,</div> - <div class='line'>Your memory back to the time will go,</div> - <div class='line'>When you and I were “O” and “Jo.”<a id='r1' /><a href='#f1' class='c012'><sup>[1]</sup></a></div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>How we worked together in ’79,</div> - <div class='line'>Wafting lightning over the W. U. Line</div> - <div class='line'>To W. M.—called “our quod,” you know—</div> - <div class='line'>When you and I were “O” and “Jo.”</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>How Lu talked by the hour to us,</div> - <div class='line'>(And we stood it like martyr’s making no fuss),</div> - <div class='line'>How we used to get “snatched”—we hated that so—</div> - <div class='line'>When you and I signed “O” and “Jo.”</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>I’ll</span> not wish you all sunshine; for life is made</div> - <div class='line'>Up of installments of sunlight and shade.</div> - <div class='line'>May you never be worse off through life, as you go,</div> - <div class='line'>Than when on W. M. wire we signed “O” and “Jo.”</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>May</span> the hinges of our Friendship never rust.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>May</span> your days in joy be passed</div> - <div class='line in2'>With friends to bless and cheer,</div> - <div class='line'>And each year exceed the last</div> - <div class='line in2'>In all that earth holds dear.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in8'><span class='pageno' id='Page_41'>41</span><span class='sc'>There’s</span> many a trouble</div> - <div class='line in8'>Would break like a bubble,</div> - <div class='line'>And into the waters of Lethe depart,</div> - <div class='line in10'>Did not we rehearse it</div> - <div class='line in10'>And tenderly nurse it,</div> - <div class='line'>And give it a permanent place in the heart.</div> - <div class='line in10'>Resolve to be merry,</div> - <div class='line in10'>All worry to ferry,</div> - <div class='line'>Across the famed waters that bid us forget.</div> - <div class='line in10'>And no longer fearful,</div> - <div class='line in10'>But happy and cheerful,</div> - <div class='line'>We feel life has much that’s worth living for yet.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<p class='c011'><span class='sc'>May</span> we always remain as good friends as we are -neighbors.</p> - -<div class='prosetb'> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>The</span> night has a thousand eyes;—</div> - <div class='line in6'>The day but one;</div> - <div class='line'>Yet the light of the whole world dies</div> - <div class='line in6'>With the setting sun.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>The mind has a thousand eyes—</div> - <div class='line in6'>The day but one;</div> - <div class='line'>Yet the light of the whole world dies</div> - <div class='line in6'>When love is done.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<p class='c011'><span class='sc'>On</span> this spotless page my pen essays to trace a record -of affection; and, as I write, a wish is in my heart that, -for thee, every life-leaf will be written with the golden -pen of love.</p> - -<div><span class='pageno' id='Page_42'>42</span></div> -<div class='prosetb'> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Though</span> many friends have signed their names,</div> - <div class='line in2'>And some have left their mark,</div> - <div class='line'>I see a place for me remains</div> - <div class='line in2'>To add my small remark.</div> - <div class='line'>My wish for thee is: joy through life;</div> - <div class='line in2'>And bliss supreme, when some one’s wife.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>I pray</span> the prayer of Plato old:</div> - <div class='line in2'>God make thee beautiful within;</div> - <div class='line'>And let thine eye the good behold</div> - <div class='line in2'>In everything, save sin.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>A few</span> true friends to aid us and love us,</div> - <div class='line in2'>And cordial hands to warmly clasp our own;</div> - <div class='line'>O! surely God hath never made us</div> - <div class='line in2'>To live distrustingly, selfish, and alone.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>A verse</span> you ask this fine day:</div> - <div class='line in2'>Of course I’ll write you one.</div> - <div class='line'>The task of writing finds its pay</div> - <div class='line in2'>In joy that it is done.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Why</span> ask a name;</div> - <div class='line in2'>Small is the good it brings;</div> - <div class='line'>Names are but breath—</div> - <div class='line in2'>Deeds—deeds alone—are things.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_43'>43</span><span class='sc'>When</span> years and months have glided by,</div> - <div class='line in2'>And on this page you cast your eye,</div> - <div class='line'>Remember ’twas a friend sincere</div> - <div class='line in2'>That left this kind remembrance here.</div> - <div class='line'>With best wishes for your future cheer.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Dear</span> ----, may your life be blest</div> - <div class='line'>With friendship, love and happiness;</div> - <div class='line'>May all your friends prove true,</div> - <div class='line'>And cheer you all the journey through.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>May</span> Future, with her kindest smile,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Wreath laurels for thy brow;</div> - <div class='line'>May loving angels guard and keep thee</div> - <div class='line in2'>Ever pure as thou art now.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>If</span> writing in Albums remembrance insures,</div> - <div class='line'>With the greatest of pleasure I’ll scribble in yours.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>In</span> after years when you recall</div> - <div class='line in2'>The days of pleasures past,</div> - <div class='line'>And think of joyous hours and all</div> - <div class='line in2'>Have flown away so fast,</div> - <div class='line'>When some forgotten air you hear</div> - <div class='line in2'>Brings back past scenes to thee,</div> - <div class='line'>And gently claims your listening ear</div> - <div class='line in2'>Keep one kind thought for me.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_44'>44</span><span class='sc'>The</span> truest happiness is found in making others happy.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Accept</span> my friend these lines from me,</div> - <div class='line'>They show that I remember thee,</div> - <div class='line'>And hope some thought they will retain</div> - <div class='line'>Till you and I shall meet again.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>For</span> thee, my fair and gentle friend,</div> - <div class='line'>I ask not wealth or fame,</div> - <div class='line'>I only ask thy path may be</div> - <div class='line'>Free from life’s toil and care.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Among</span> the many friends that claim</div> - <div class='line in2'>A kind remembrance in thy breast,</div> - <div class='line'>I too would add my simple name.</div> - <div class='line in2'>Among the rest.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Never</span> grow weary doing good.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>I want</span> a warm and faithful friend,</div> - <div class='line in4'>To cheer the adverse hour;</div> - <div class='line'>Who ne’er to flatter will descend,</div> - <div class='line in4'>Nor bend the knee to power;</div> - <div class='line'>A friend to chide me when I’m wrong;</div> - <div class='line in2'>My inmost soul to see;</div> - <div class='line'>And that my friendship prove as strong</div> - <div class='line in2'>For him as his for me.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='pbb'> - <hr class='pb c000' /> -</div> - -<div><span class='pageno' id='Page_45'>45</span></div> -<div class='faux'> - -<div class='chapter'> - <h2 class='c004'>ESTEEM and CONFIDENCE.</h2> -</div> - -</div> -<div class='figcenter id002'> -<img src='images/image045.jpg' alt='ESTEEM and CONFIDENCE.' class='ig001' /> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b c002'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Some</span> little token of regard,</div> - <div class='line in2'>You wish from me to claim;</div> - <div class='line'>But as time is pressing hard,</div> - <div class='line in2'>I will but write my name.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Every</span> joy that heaven can send;</div> - <div class='line in2'>Wealth, and every kind of treasure;—</div> - <div class='line'>Health and love to thee, my friend,</div> - <div class='line in2'>And happiness without measure.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>In</span> future years, should trusted friends</div> - <div class='line in2'>Depart like summer birds;</div> - <div class='line'>And all the comfort memory lends,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Is false and honeyed words,</div> - <div class='line'>Turn then to me who fain would prove,</div> - <div class='line in2'>However thy lot be cast,</div> - <div class='line'>That naught his heart can ever move</div> - <div class='line in2'>From friendship of the past.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_46'>46</span><span class='sc'>May</span> your path be strewn with roses,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Fair and flowery to the end;</div> - <div class='line'>And when your body in death reposes,</div> - <div class='line in2'>May your Maker be your friend.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Well</span>, ----, I surely would like to please;</div> - <div class='line in2'>But can’t think what to say.</div> - <div class='line'>All your friends have wishes bright,</div> - <div class='line in2'>To cheer your life so gay.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>I will add: May all their words</div> - <div class='line in2'>Be symbols of love and truth;</div> - <div class='line'>That when you grow weary, and seek for rest,</div> - <div class='line in2'>You will rejoice in the friends of your youth.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>To</span> write in your Album, dear friend you ask;</div> - <div class='line'>Ah, well! it is not such a difficult task.</div> - <div class='line'>All I can say is contained here in one line:</div> - <div class='line'>May the blessings of Heaven forever be thine.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Let</span> not our friendship be like the rose, to sever;</div> - <div class='line'>But, like the evergreen, may it last forever.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<p class='c011'><span class='sc'>He</span> who does good to another, does also good to himself—not -only in the act, but in the consciousness of well-doing -is his reward.</p> - -<div class='prosetb'> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -</div> - -<p class='c011'><span class='sc'>In</span> the evening of life, cherish the remembrance of one -who loved thee in its morning.</p> - -<div><span class='pageno' id='Page_47'>47</span></div> -<div class='prosetb'> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Speak</span> of me kindly when life’s dreams are o’er;</div> - <div class='line'>Speak of me gently when I am no more.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Safely</span> down Life’s ebbing tide,</div> - <div class='line'>May our vessels smoothly glide,</div> - <div class='line'>And anchor side by side—in heaven.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>That</span> Hope and you,</div> - <div class='line'>Bright days will view.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<p class='c011'><span class='sc'>Guard</span> well thy thoughts; our thoughts are heard in -heaven.</p> - -<div class='prosetb'> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -</div> - -<p class='c011'><span class='sc'>May</span> He who hath pencilled the leaves with beauty, -given the flowers their bloom, and lent music to the lay of -the timid bird, graciously remember thee in that day -when He shall gather His jewels.</p> - -<div class='prosetb'> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>From</span> memory’s leaves,</div> - <div class='line in2'>I fondly squeeze</div> - <div class='line'>Three little words—</div> - <div class='line in2'>Forget Me Not.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>A long</span> life, and a happy one;</div> - <div class='line'>A tall man, and a jolly one—</div> - <div class='line'>Like—well—you know who!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_48'>48</span><span class='sc'>The</span> hills are shadows, and they flow</div> - <div class='line in2'>From form to form, and nothing stands;</div> - <div class='line'>They melt like mist, the solid lands,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Like clouds they shape themselves and go.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>But in my spirit will I dwell,</div> - <div class='line in2'>And dream my dream and hold it true;</div> - <div class='line'>For though my pen doth write adieu,</div> - <div class='line in2'>I cannot say for aye farewell.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>God’s</span> love and peace be with thee, when</div> - <div class='line'>Soe’r this soft Autumnal air</div> - <div class='line'>Lifts the dark tresses of thy hair.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Thou lack’st not friendship’s spellword, nor</div> - <div class='line'>The half-unconscious power to draw</div> - <div class='line'>All hearts to thine by Love’s sweet law.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>With such a prayer, on this sweet day,</div> - <div class='line'>As thou mayest hear and I may say,</div> - <div class='line'>I greet thee, dearest, far away.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>This</span> Album’s a mansion which offers its best,</div> - <div class='line in2'>To the friends who have written their thoughts,</div> - <div class='line'>And the banquet is spread with festal fare,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Where guests mingle enjoyment with rest;</div> - <div class='line'>And they leave their memorials under thy roof,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Sometimes in sorrow, more oft in joy divine,</div> - <div class='line'>Nor think a single thought quite good enough,</div> - <div class='line in2'>To measure its faintest pulse with thine.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='pbb'> - <hr class='pb c000' /> -</div> - -<div><span class='pageno' id='Page_49'>49</span></div> -<div class='faux'> - -<div class='chapter'> - <h2 class='c004'>BIRTHDAY VERSES.</h2> -</div> - -</div> -<div class='figcenter id002'> -<img src='images/image049.jpg' alt='BIRTHDAY VERSES.' class='ig001' /> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b c002'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>I wish</span> thee every blessing</div> - <div class='line in2'>That can attend thee here;</div> - <div class='line'>And may each future birthday prove</div> - <div class='line in2'>My wish to be sincere.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<p class='c011'><span class='sc'>Your</span> Birthday will always be green in the memory of -your friends.</p> - -<div class='prosetb'> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -</div> - -<p class='c011'><span class='sc'>May</span> these flowers, presented on your birthday, be -emblematical of the purity of your life.</p> - -<div class='prosetb'> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Wake</span> early this morning,</div> - <div class='line'>Nor miss the grey dawning;</div> - <div class='line'>Take this greeting from me</div> - <div class='line'>As it goes straight to thee:</div> - <div class='line'>May joy and gladness e’er be thine;</div> - <div class='line'>And endless brightness round thee shine.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_50'>50</span><span class='sc'>This</span> is thy Birthday, may it be,</div> - <div class='line'>A source of happiness to thee,</div> - <div class='line'>And may each Birthday yet in store,</div> - <div class='line'>Be brighter than the one before.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Dear</span> friend, on this thy natal day,</div> - <div class='line'>I send to thee a little lay,</div> - <div class='line in20'>And wishes tender</div> - <div class='line'>And only ask that thou’lt repay</div> - <div class='line'>My thoughts with thine, and fondly say,</div> - <div class='line in20'>“I thank the sender.”</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>May Spring its blossoms round thee strew,</div> - <div class='line'>And Summer, deck’d in mantle new,</div> - <div class='line in20'>Come forth to greet thee;</div> - <div class='line'>May Autumn fruitage crown the year,</div> - <div class='line'>And Winter, with its jovial cheer,</div> - <div class='line in20'>Bring friends to meet thee.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>And if I still must absent be,</div> - <div class='line'>Do not forget to send to me</div> - <div class='line in20'>One kind word only,</div> - <div class='line'>By home birds passing by the door,</div> - <div class='line'>Who, flying towards this distant shore,</div> - <div class='line in20'>May greet me lonely.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Like</span> sunbeams to the drooping flowers,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Good-will our lives doth bless;</div> - <div class='line'>It furthers every wish of ours,</div> - <div class='line in2'>And joys in our success.</div> - <div class='line'>So may its rays towards you flow,</div> - <div class='line in2'>That none but friends your heart may know.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_51'>51</span><span class='sc'>In</span> these days of mirth and glee,</div> - <div class='line'>What shall my message be to thee?</div> - <div class='line'>What can I wish for one so blest?</div> - <div class='line'>Thou sunny bird in a sunny nest!</div> - <div class='line'>This I wish, and this I pray:</div> - <div class='line'>May the joys of life never pass away,</div> - <div class='line'>But only merge in a sigh of bliss—</div> - <div class='line'>Into a life far brighter than this!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>If</span> words could all my wishes say,</div> - <div class='line'>Oh! how my tongue would talk away.</div> - <div class='line'>I wish this day and many more</div> - <div class='line'>Might on dear ---- blessings pour.</div> - <div class='line'>May health, wealth, love, and peace</div> - <div class='line'>With each succeeding year increase;</div> - <div class='line'>And oh! the last, come when it may,</div> - <div class='line'>Be unto thee a happy day.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>On</span> this Birthday morn arise</div> - <div class='line in2'>From thy placid slumber!</div> - <div class='line'>Soon to meet love’s longing eyes</div> - <div class='line in2'>And greetings without number.</div> - <div class='line'>Heaven’s dearest gifts be thine</div> - <div class='line in2'>To crown all earthly treasure,</div> - <div class='line'>For gifts that God gives unto thee</div> - <div class='line in2'>Know neither stint or measure.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>As</span> beauteous flowers in garlands intertwine,</div> - <div class='line'>May Peace and Love to cheer thy heart combine,</div> - <div class='line in4'>To give you a very happy Birthday.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_52'>52</span><span class='sc'>Love</span> in every bosom live,</div> - <div class='line'>And the truest pleasure give:</div> - <div class='line'>And happy smiles each lip adorn,</div> - <div class='line'>On this happy birthday morn.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Little</span> trouble and still less care,</div> - <div class='line'>With ever a faithful heart to share;</div> - <div class='line'>Birthdays many, and happy too,</div> - <div class='line'>This is the life I wish for you.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Dear</span>, happy birthdays, how fair ye seem,</div> - <div class='line in10'>Along the path of time:</div> - <div class='line'>Foot-prints whereon sweet-heart flowers blow,</div> - <div class='line in10'>By worldly storms unriven,</div> - <div class='line'>That we may mark them as they go,</div> - <div class='line in10'>And find our way to heaven.</div> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Bright</span> as a flower may thy Birthday be.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>True</span> love shall live thro’ sorrow’s wintry storm,</div> - <div class='line'>And bloom afresh on this glad Birthday morn.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Lovingly</span> take this birthday souvenir,</div> - <div class='line'>And for my sake esteem it dear!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<p class='c011'><span class='sc'>May</span> the morning of thy birth break in gladness, and -the day teem with light-hearted mirth that shall last -always!</p> -<div class='pbb'> - <hr class='pb c000' /> -</div> - -<div><span class='pageno' id='Page_53'>53</span></div> -<div class='faux'> - -<div class='chapter'> - <h2 class='c004'>HUMOROUS.</h2> -</div> - -</div> -<div class='figcenter id002'> -<img src='images/image053.jpg' alt='HUMOROUS.' class='ig001' /> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b c002'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>I dip</span> my pen into the ink,</div> - <div class='line in2'>And grasp your album tight;</div> - <div class='line'>But for my life I cannot think</div> - <div class='line in2'>One single word to write.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>In</span> the storms of life,</div> - <div class='line in2'>When you need an umbrella,</div> - <div class='line'>May you have to uphold it</div> - <div class='line in2'>A handsome young fellow.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>May</span> beauty and truth,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Keep you in youth;</div> - <div class='line'>Green tea and sage,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Preserve your old age.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Some</span> people can be very funny;</div> - <div class='line in2'>I never could be so.</div> - <div class='line'>So I’ll just inscribe my name;</div> - <div class='line in2'>It’s the funniest thing I know.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_54'>54</span><span class='sc'>Fee simple</span> and simple fee,</div> - <div class='line in2'>And all the fees entail</div> - <div class='line'>Are nothing when compared to thee—</div> - <div class='line in2'>Thou best of fees—fe-male.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>What!</span> write in your album, for critics to spy,</div> - <div class='line'>For the learned to laugh at?—No, not I!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Accept</span> my valued friendship,</div> - <div class='line in2'>And roll it up in cotton,</div> - <div class='line'>And think it not illusion,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Because so easily gotten.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Withsoever</span> is this for why?</div> - <div class='line'>Wherefore. Ain’t it?</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>When</span> I, poor elf, shall have vanished in vapor,</div> - <div class='line'>May still my memory live—on paper.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Round</span> went the book, and here it came,</div> - <div class='line'>In it for me to write my name;</div> - <div class='line'>I would write better, if I could,</div> - <div class='line'>But nature said I never should.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>If</span> you wish to laugh;</div> - <div class='line'>Glance at my autograph.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_55'>55</span><span class='sc'>When</span> on this page you chance to look,</div> - <div class='line'>Think of me and close the book.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Sailing</span> down the stream of life,</div> - <div class='line in2'>In your little bark canoe,</div> - <div class='line'>May you have a pleasant trip,</div> - <div class='line in2'>With just room enough for two.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Dear Friend</span>:—</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in8'><span class='sc'>Do</span> not doubt me;</div> - <div class='line in8'>You know more about me</div> - <div class='line in8'>Than many whose names</div> - <div class='line in20'>Here appear.</div> - <div class='line in8'>But to tell them I’ll never—</div> - <div class='line in8'>What! never? Hardly ever—</div> - <div class='line in8'>What I’d like to write to you</div> - <div class='line in20'>Here.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in8'><span class='sc'>’Tis</span> nonsense I’ve written;</div> - <div class='line in8'>You’ll think I am smitten</div> - <div class='line in8'>With charms that I hold</div> - <div class='line in20'>Very dear.</div> - <div class='line in8'>Please excuse me from writing,</div> - <div class='line in8'>More lines so inviting,</div> - <div class='line in8'>Your time to be spent</div> - <div class='line in20'>Idly here.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>I care</span> not much for gold or land,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Give me a mortgage here and there,</div> - <div class='line'>Some good bank stock—some note of hand,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Or trifling railroad share.</div> - <div class='line'>I only ask that Fortune send</div> - <div class='line in2'>A little more than I can spend.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_56'>56</span><span class='sc'>Man’s</span> love is like Scotch snuff—</div> - <div class='line'>You take a pinch and that’s enough.</div> - <div class='line'>Profit by this sage advice,</div> - <div class='line'>When you fall in love, think twice.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Long</span> may you live,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Happy may you be,</div> - <div class='line'>When you get married</div> - <div class='line in2'>Come and see me.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>May</span> you be happy,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Each day of your life,</div> - <div class='line'>Get a good husband</div> - <div class='line in2'>And make a good wife.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>As</span> sure as comes your wedding day,</div> - <div class='line in2'>A broom to you I’ll send;</div> - <div class='line'>In <em>sunshine</em>, use the brushy part,</div> - <div class='line in2'>In <em>storm</em>, the other end.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>I write</span> in your Album?</div> - <div class='line in2'>How very absurd!</div> - <div class='line'>My mind is at random—</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>May</span> your cheeks retain their dimples,</div> - <div class='line in2'>May your heart be just as gay,</div> - <div class='line'>Until some manly voice shall whisper,</div> - <div class='line in2'>“Dearest, will you name the day?”</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='pbb'> - <hr class='pb c000' /> -</div> - -<div><span class='pageno' id='Page_57'>57</span></div> -<div class='faux'> - -<div class='chapter'> - <h2 class='c004'>CHRISTMAS and NEW-YEAR VERSES</h2> -</div> - -</div> -<div class='figcenter id002'> -<img src='images/image057.jpg' alt='CHRISTMAS and NEW-YEAR - VERSES' class='ig001' /> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b c002'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Joy</span> and plenty in the cottage,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Peace and feasting in the hall;</div> - <div class='line'>And the voices of the children</div> - <div class='line in2'>Ring out clear above it all:</div> - <div class='line in6'>A merry Christmas!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>As</span> Christmas offerings meet your eyes,</div> - <div class='line'>Still closer be sweet friendship’s ties.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Ring</span> out, ye bells, o’er all the earth,</div> - <div class='line in2'>To tell with brazen voice,</div> - <div class='line'>The tidings of the Saviour’s birth</div> - <div class='line in2'>And bid mankind rejoice.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>True</span> love shall live thro’ sorrow’s wintry storm,</div> - <div class='line'>And bloom afresh on this glad Christmas morn.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_58'>58</span><span class='sc'>Oh</span> joyous be your Christmas-tide,</div> - <div class='line in2'>And bright your New Year, too;</div> - <div class='line'>To you may love ne’er be denied;</div> - <div class='line in2'>May all your friends be true.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Our</span> Saviour Christ was born</div> - <div class='line'>That we might have the Rose without the thorn.</div> - <div class='line in2'>All through His desert life</div> - <div class='line in2'>He felt the thorns of human sin and strife.</div> - <div class='line'>His blessed feet were bare</div> - <div class='line'>To every hurting brier. He did not spare</div> - <div class='line in2'>One bleeding footstep on the way</div> - <div class='line in2'>He came to trace for us, until the day</div> - <div class='line'>The cruel crown was pressed upon the Brow</div> - <div class='line'>That smiles upon us from His glory now.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>And so He won for us</div> - <div class='line'>Sweet, thornless, everlasting flowers thus.</div> - <div class='line in2'>He bids our desert way</div> - <div class='line in2'>Rejoice and blossom as the Rose to-day.</div> - <div class='line'>There is no hidden thorn</div> - <div class='line'>In His good gifts of grace. He would adorn</div> - <div class='line in2'>The lives that now are His alone,</div> - <div class='line in2'>With brightness and beauty all his own.</div> - <div class='line'>Then praise the Lord who came on Christmas day</div> - <div class='line'>To give the Rose and take the thorns away.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Again</span> the festive season’s here,</div> - <div class='line'>With all that can delight and cheer;</div> - <div class='line'>Oh! may you nothing lack each day,</div> - <div class='line'>But find fresh blessings strew your way.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_59'>59</span><span class='sc'>Ring</span> in, ring in the revelries,</div> - <div class='line in2'>And let the feast be one</div> - <div class='line'>Where not a single guest there is</div> - <div class='line in2'>But Innocence and Fun!</div> - <div class='line'>Let Christmas warmth keep winter out,</div> - <div class='line in2'>And joy unbroken reign—</div> - <div class='line'>From floor to roof-tree send the shout</div> - <div class='line in2'>Till Christmas comes again!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>A little</span> bird comes singing,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Singing a song to you;</div> - <div class='line'>He sings of sun-tipped flowers,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Bathed in a diamond dew.</div> - <div class='line'>“The days are coming,” he warbles,</div> - <div class='line in2'>“When the frost has flown away,</div> - <div class='line'>When the earth will be sweet with flowers</div> - <div class='line in2'>And the breath of new-mown hay.”</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Oh bird so softly singing</div> - <div class='line in2'>Your song of pleasant days,</div> - <div class='line'>Go sing to her I fondly love,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Through the wintry cold and bare.</div> - <div class='line'>When the heart is light, the days are bright,</div> - <div class='line in2'>And the sun seems ever near;</div> - <div class='line'>So sing her your lay this Christmas Day,</div> - <div class='line in2'>And through all the bright New Year.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Oh!</span> may thy Christmas happy be,</div> - <div class='line in2'>And naught but joy appear,</div> - <div class='line'>Is now the wish I send to thee,</div> - <div class='line in2'>And all I love most dear.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_60'>60</span><span class='sc'>Now</span> Christmas comes with hearty cheer</div> - <div class='line in2'>May kindly thoughts go round,</div> - <div class='line'>And bring to you a glad New Year,</div> - <div class='line in2'>With peace and plenty crowned.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Christmas</span> is coming, and what will it bring?</div> - <div class='line'>Many a pleasant and gladdening thing!</div> - <div class='line'>Meetings and greetings, and innocent mirth:</div> - <div class='line'>All that is brightest and best on the earth.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Christmas</span> comes, let every heart</div> - <div class='line'>In Christmas customs bear its part:</div> - <div class='line'>The “old” be “young,” the sad be gay,</div> - <div class='line'>And smiles chase every care away.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Sure</span>, Christmas is a happy time</div> - <div class='line in2'>In spite of wintry weather,</div> - <div class='line'>For laugh, and song, and jest go round</div> - <div class='line in2'>When dear friends meet together:</div> - <div class='line'>And hearts are warm, and eyes beam bright.</div> - <div class='line'>In the ruddy glow of Christmas night!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>For</span> friends we strive to pierce</div> - <div class='line in2'>The future, dense and dark,</div> - <div class='line'>But not a ray of light</div> - <div class='line in2'>We see, nor faintest spark;</div> - <div class='line'>But yet while we have faith to cheer,</div> - <div class='line'>We trusting wish “A bright New Year.”</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_61'>61</span><span class='sc'>Hark</span>, the pearly air is trembling,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Liquid music floats along;</div> - <div class='line'>Angels, in sweet joy assembling,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Thrill the skies with heavenly song.</div> - <div class='line'>“Peace on Earth,” is their refrain,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Oh, be it yours this peace to gain.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>May</span> piety with wishes placed above,</div> - <div class='line'>And steady loyalty and faithful love,</div> - <div class='line'>Be thy blessings this Christmas-tide.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>O life</span> is but a river</div> - <div class='line in2'>And in our childhood we,</div> - <div class='line'>But a fair and running streamlet</div> - <div class='line in2'>Adorned with flowers, see.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>But as we grow more earnest,</div> - <div class='line in2'>The river grows more deep,</div> - <div class='line'>And where we laughed in childhood,</div> - <div class='line in2'>We, older, pause to weep.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Each Christmas as it passes,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Some change to us doth bring,</div> - <div class='line'>Yet to our friends the closer,</div> - <div class='line in2'>As time creeps on, we cling.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>May</span> health and joy, and peace be thine</div> - <div class='line in2'>Upon this Christmas day,</div> - <div class='line'>And happy faces round thee shine</div> - <div class='line in2'>As plenteous as the flowers in May.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_62'>62</span><span class='sc'>O bright</span> be the day</div> - <div class='line in2'>Sweet echoes resounding,</div> - <div class='line'>Love lighting the way</div> - <div class='line in2'>And warm hearts surrounding.</div> - <div class='line'>May the breath of His peace</div> - <div class='line in2'>In thy spirit remain,</div> - <div class='line'>Till Christmas revisits</div> - <div class='line in2'>The round world again!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Let</span> the New Tear be to you</div> - <div class='line'>As a childish playmate new,</div> - <div class='line'>Stealing suddenly among</div> - <div class='line'>Apple-boughs that overhung.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Greet him half in confidence,</div> - <div class='line'>Half as ready for defence!</div> - <div class='line'>Is he come to tease or play?</div> - <div class='line'>Will he give or take away?</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>Let him come as friend or foe!</div> - <div class='line'>No New Year can overthrow</div> - <div class='line'>This our friendship that has grown</div> - <div class='line'>From the years that now are flown.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>O childhood</span> is a golden time,</div> - <div class='line in2'>When all the world is bright,</div> - <div class='line'>When sunshine comes with every morn,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Sweet dreams with every night.</div> - <div class='line'>Were I a fairy, I would give</div> - <div class='line in2'>To thee a magic kiss,</div> - <div class='line'>That should ensure for the New Year,</div> - <div class='line in2'>As fair a time as this.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_63'>63</span><span class='sc'>Take</span>, my friend, this heartfelt greeting,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Happy be thy Christmas day,</div> - <div class='line'>Faith, and hope, and love here meeting,</div> - <div class='line in2'>Speed thee on thy New Year’s way!</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>I cannot</span> tell what thou wilt bring to me,</div> - <div class='line in14'>O strange New Year,</div> - <div class='line'>But tho’ thick darkness shrouds thy days and months</div> - <div class='line in14'>I will not fear.</div> - <div class='line'>Why should I fret my heart to know before</div> - <div class='line in14'>What may befall?</div> - <div class='line'>With this one thought content—I ask no more—</div> - <div class='line in14'>God knows it all.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>Health</span> and prosperity</div> - <div class='line in2'>Your life to cheer,</div> - <div class='line'>With every blessing</div> - <div class='line in2'>For the bright New Year.</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class='c010' /> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'><span class='sc'>On</span> this New Year’s morning</div> - <div class='line in2'>My wishes take their flight,</div> - 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