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<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 53404 ***</div>
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<li>Obvious typos and punctuation errors corrected. Inconsistencies in spelling and
hyphenation left as in original.
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<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.
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hand character. If the device font does not support this character, ☞, it may not appear
correctly.
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<h1 class='c001'><span class='small'>THE</span><br />ALBUM WRITER’S<br />FRIEND.</h1>
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<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>
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<span class='small'>SUITABLE FOR WRITING IN AUTOGRAPH ALBUMS, VALENTINES,
BIRTHDAY, CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR CARDS.</span>
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<div>ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.</div>
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<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>
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<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>
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<div><span class='sc'>Copyright</span></div>
<div><span class='fss'>1881.</span></div>
<div><span class='sc'>By J. S. Ogilvie.</span></div>
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<h2 class='c004'>PREFACE.</h2>
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<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>
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<h2 class='c004'>CONTENTS.</h2>
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<th class='c008'>PAGE</th>
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<td class='c009'><span class='sc'>Dedication Verses</span>,</td>
<td class='c008'><a href='#Page_5'>5</a></td>
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<td class='c009'><span class='sc'>Sentiment and Affection</span>,</td>
<td class='c008'><a href='#Page_9'>9</a></td>
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<td class='c009'><span class='sc'>Miscellaneous</span>,</td>
<td class='c008'><a href='#Page_27'>27</a></td>
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<td class='c009'><span class='sc'>Esteem and Confidence</span>,</td>
<td class='c008'><a href='#Page_45'>45</a></td>
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<td class='c009'><span class='sc'>Birthday Verses</span>,</td>
<td class='c008'><a href='#Page_49'>49</a></td>
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<td class='c009'><span class='sc'>Humorous</span>,</td>
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<td class='c009'><span class='sc'>Christmas and New Year</span>,</td>
<td class='c008'><a href='#Page_57'>57</a></td>
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<h2 class='c004'>DEDICATION VERSES<br /> <br />SUITABLE FOR INSCRIPTION ON TITLE PAGES OF ALBUMS.</h2>
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<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>
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<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>
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<div class='line'><span class='sc'>To My Friends</span>:—</div>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<div><span class='pageno' id='Page_9'>9</span></div>
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<h2 class='c004'>SENTIMENT and AFFECTION</h2>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<p class='c011'><span class='sc'>Time</span> advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like
the swiftest current.</p>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<p class='c011'><span class='sc'>Daily</span> we write our autographs on the minds and
hearts of those around us.</p>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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</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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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</div>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<div class='line'><span class='sc'>In</span> memory’s wreath may one bud be entwined for me.</div>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<p class='c011'><span class='sc'>May</span> thy darkest hours in life be well lighted with the
sunshine of contentment.</p>
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<div class='line'><span class='sc'>Yours</span> sincerely—although merely—</div>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<div><span class='pageno' id='Page_27'>27</span></div>
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<h2 class='c004'>MISCELLANEOUS.</h2>
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<div class='line'><span class='sc'>May</span> e’en thy failings lean to virtue’s side.</div>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<p class='c011'><span class='sc'>Let</span> your life be like a snowflake, which leaves a
mark, but not a stain.</p>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<p class='c011'><span class='sc'>In</span> time we transact business for eternity; whatever,
therefore, we do now, should be done well.</p>
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<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>
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</div>
<hr class='c010' />
<p class='c011'><span class='sc'>They</span> who have light in themselves, will not revolve as
satellites.</p>
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<hr class='c010' />
</div>
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<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>
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<div class='prosetb'>
<hr class='c010' />
</div>
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<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>
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<hr class='c010' />
</div>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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' />
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<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>
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<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>
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<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' />
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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' />
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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</div>
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<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>
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<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' />
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<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>
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</div>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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</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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<div class='prosetb'>
<hr class='c010' />
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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</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>
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<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'>
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</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' />
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<div class='line'><span class='sc'>Withsoever</span> is this for why?</div>
<div class='line'>Wherefore. Ain’t it?</div>
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<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>
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<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>
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<div class='line'><span class='sc'>If</span> you wish to laugh;</div>
<div class='line'>Glance at my autograph.</div>
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<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>
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<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>
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<div class='line'><span class='sc'>Dear Friend</span>:—</div>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<h2 class='c004'>CHRISTMAS and NEW-YEAR VERSES</h2>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<div class='line'><span class='sc'>On</span> this New Year’s morning</div>
<div class='line in2'>My wishes take their flight,</div>
<div class='line'>And wing to thee a greeting</div>
<div class='line in2'>That would make all things bright.</div>
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<div class='line'><span class='sc'>Gladly</span> now it is my pleasure,</div>
<div class='line'>Joys to wish you, without measure,</div>
<div class='line'>Happiness and peace attending,</div>
<div class='line'>With pure heavenly blessings blending.</div>
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<div class='line'><span class='pageno' id='Page_64'>64</span><span class='sc'>May</span> the blessings of the old year follow in the new.</div>
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<div class='line'><span class='sc'>We</span> cannot look into the future,</div>
<div class='line in2'>We cannot tell if the New Year,</div>
<div class='line'>Will bring us fresh sorrows to mourn o’er,</div>
<div class='line in2'>Or bring us new blessings to cheer.</div>
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<div class='line'>But an all-seeing God is above us,</div>
<div class='line in2'>Who knows-what for each one is best,</div>
<div class='line'>Who in this world will care for and love us,</div>
<div class='line in2'>And bring us at last to our rest.</div>
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<p class='c013'>This is the most humorous book ever issued from the Press. <em>The
One Hundredth Thousand</em> has just been issued, and the demand for
it is still increasing. One editor says of it: “It made us laugh till
our sides ached and the tears came.” Another says: “It will
drive the blues out of a bag of indigo. It is worth a dollar, but
costs only ten cents.” One reader says of it: “I received the
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by laughing over it, you may send another copy, so I can dispose
of the rest of them in the same happy manner.”</p>
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<div><span class='xlarge'>DIARY OF A MINISTER’S WIFE.</span></div>
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<p class='c014'>“It excels Mark Twain for genuine humor.”</p>
<p class='c014'>This is one of the most humourous books of the present day,
showing in a manner pleasing to all readers the trials, tribulations,
expectations, and actual experiences of a “minister’s wife” in a
country parish. The characters represented are true to life, and
will doubtless bring to the mind of the reader remembrances of
events and individuals within their own knowledge. It contains 64
pages, with handsome engraved cover. Price Ten Cents.</p>
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<div><span class='xlarge'>“A BUSHEL OF FUN,”</span></div>
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<p class='c014'>gathered from the writings of authors of “A Bad Boy’s Diary.”
Josh Billings, Mark Twain, Detroit Free Press Man, Burlington
Hawkeye Man, Max Adeler, and other funny men and women.</p>
<p class='c014'>This is, indeed, a whole bushel of funny things, well shaken
down, and running over with fun and good humor. It contains 64
pages, and is handsomely illustrated. Price Ten Cents.</p>
<p class='c014'>☞ The above books are for sale by Newsdealers and Booksellers.
Either of them will be mailed on receipt of price by the
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<p class='c011'><span class='label'><a href='#r1'>1</a>. </span>Initials used by telegraph operators.</p>
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