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+GRANDMA'S MEMORIES
+
+BY MARY D. BRINE
+
+_Author of "Grandma's Attic Treasures_"
+
+DEDICATED TO THOSE
+DEAR ONES WHOSE FACES ARE TURNED
+TOWARD THE SUNSET
+
+_ILLUSTRATED_
+
+
+1888.
+
+
+
+
+LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
+
+
+Frontispiece _Walter Pag_
+
+"Only a lullaby, gentle and low"
+
+"Grandma's a maiden"
+
+'lo Grandma's girl-life comes some woe"
+
+"The young head is lain"
+
+"Grandma now is a bride"
+
+"On the sunny young head"
+
+"Soft and low is the little one's breath"
+
+"Learns that sweet lesson so old and so new"
+
+"As he looks in my face"
+
+"'Mid the farewells that are merry, yet sad"
+
+"On Grandma's thin cheek falls a kiss"
+
+"Draws near the old chair, and sits close at her side"
+
+"The gift of a grandchild"
+
+Headpiece--"Evening and the Bells" _A. W. Parsm_
+
+Head and Tailpiece--Vignettes _R A. Bell_
+
+
+
+
+
+GRANDMA'S MEMORIES.
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+GRANDMA'S MEMORIES.
+
+
+The mantle of evening is veiling the sky,
+And over the landscape its soft shadows lie;
+The old year is passing, a new year will reign,
+Ere earth shall awaken to day-dawn again.
+
+Dear Grandma has folded her knitting away,
+And muses alone at the close of the day;
+While the old clock ticks solemnly off, one by one,
+The moments yet left to the year almost done.
+
+Out from the shadows fast filling the room,
+Out from the dying year's gathering gloom,
+Many sweet pictures of past happy years
+Come flitting again with their hopes and their fears.
+
+On the broad hearthstone the dull embers glow,
+The old year's last hours are quiet and slow;
+But back to the Past, with its pleasures and pain--
+Of the Present unmindful, she wanders again.
+
+She is seeing dear faces, and clasping the hand
+Of many a friend in the shadowy land,
+And the ghosts of old years she has watched in and out,
+Come forth from the shadows and hedge her about.
+
+Hark! What is that stealing thro' silence and gloom,
+To fill with sweet melody Grandma's lone room?
+What brings that fond smile, and dispels every trace
+Of sadness and tears on the dear, aged face?
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Only a lullaby, gentle and low,
+Which a mother, while rocking her babe to and fro,
+Croons over and over, for baby alone,
+Till far into dreamland his spirit hath flown.
+
+Only the lullaby all mothers love,
+Listened to daily by angels above;
+The dear, quaint old song which will ever seem best
+To sing to our babies and lull them to rest--
+
+
+_The Lullaby_.
+
+[Illustration: Music Sheet detail:]
+
+"Hush, my babe, lie still and slumber,
+Holy angels guard thy bed;
+Heavenly blessings without number
+Gently fall upon thy head."
+
+Crooning it softly, and crooning it low,
+Rocking and nestling with--"By-baby-O!"
+Loving the melody known the world o'er,
+And adding sweet words that our baby loves more.
+
+So sings this mother to baby to-night,
+While nearer and nearer the dream-angel bright
+Is hovering 'mid shadows, till baby ere long
+Lies slumbering, and hushed is the lullaby song.
+
+While mother takes up a new duty, and so
+From one to another will busily go.
+But the dear aged heart in the room just beyond,
+Still lingers and rests amid memories fond.
+
+The strains of the lullaby bear her away
+O'er the lapse of long years to her own childhood's.
+She is living again 'neath her babyhood's skies
+Where sunshine is dancing before her blue eyes.
+
+[Illustration: Grandma's a maiden]
+
+She sees her dear mother, and hears the sweet voice,
+Whose fond, tender tones made her young heart rejoice,
+She climbs to the arms ever patient to bear
+The wee, tired toddler, and all burdens share.
+
+How well she recalls the sweet hour of rest,
+When nestling her head on that dear mother's breast,
+She sank into slumber, lulled gently and low,
+By the strains of the soft old-time lullaby--O!
+
+Again does she listen to every fond word
+That love on the lips of the singer hath stirred;
+The "By-oh, my baby!" which mother knows best,
+Will comfort and soothe the young child to its rest.
+
+And Grandma forgets the deep lines on her face,
+Which tell of the years--the years long flown apace;
+She does not remember that Time has left snow
+On the head that was golden so long, long ago.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+She is only a child as she listens to-night--
+With a sense of the old childish rest and delight--
+To the voice of the mother who so long ago
+Sat singing to _her_ in the firelight's glow--
+
+[Illustration: tune in G major and words: By, by, O baby! baby by O!]
+
+But childhood is merged into girlhood at last,
+(The sweet years of "baby-life" vanish so fast!)
+And Grandma's a maiden, so dainty and fair,
+Of girlhood's bright visions content with her share.
+
+How merrily now glide the hours away!
+And yet, as comes oft on a fair Summer's day,
+A cloud that o'ershadows its fairness, e'en so
+To Grandma's girl-life now and then comes some woe
+
+[Illustration]
+
+To grieve and to wound it, and hide from blue eves
+The still deeper blue of the beautiful skies;
+And how many times, just for comfort and rest,
+The young head is lain upon mother's dear breast!
+
+And tho' she's no longer the "baby," yet see,
+The mother's arms clasp her all pityingly,
+And turning once more to the "lullaby--O!"
+She sings to her girl all so sweetly and low,
+
+The nursery melody known the world o'er,
+As she soothes, pets and comforts the young heart so sore.
+Yes, Grandma is only a young girl to-night,
+As she muses alone in the dim firelight.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The picture has changed, Grandma now is a bride,
+The choice of her heart proudly stands at her side;
+She is living again the sweet life of those days
+When she first knew a husband's devotion and praise.
+
+[Illustration: Grandma now is a bride]
+
+To the faded old cheek springs again the warm blush,
+The old years are young with the spring-time's soft flush,
+The dear, dim blue eyes borrow youth's ardent glow,
+As fast thro' her brain old-time memories flow.
+
+But ah! a light footstep within the lone room
+Hath scattered the dream; loving eyes pierce the gloom,
+A lithesome young figure at Grandma's side kneels,
+A firm youthful hand into Grandma's hand steals.
+
+"Ah, Grandma, my Grandma, the smile on your face
+Is proof that some pleasure has there left its trace;
+Now, what were your thoughts? for I know they were far
+Away from the _Present_, as earth from yon star?
+
+"My baby is sleeping, I've nothing to do,
+Let me sit in the gloaming, dear granny, with you;
+The clock will soon ring us the hour of nine,
+Please talk to _me_, Grandma, of dear auld lang syne."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+On the sunny young head Grandma's aged hand lies,
+As she meets with her own the young mother's blue eyes,
+For dear to her soul is this grandchild so fair,
+Who has borrowed _her_ youth in her soft eyes and hair.
+
+"Ah, child, down the vista of 'dear auld lang syne,'
+Full soon will the torches of memory shine
+For you, tho' life's summer seems scarcely begun,
+And your head is yet golden 'neath morn's golden sun.
+
+"For Time flies so fast; listen, dearie, I, too,
+Feel that Summer again. A young mother like you,
+I am holding _my_ baby all close to my breast,
+And with the old lullaby lull her to rest.
+
+"I can feel once again, as I rock to and fro,
+The weight of the dear little head. Soft and low
+Is the little one's breath on the cheek which I press
+'Gainst her sweet baby-lips in a loving caress--
+
+"As I sing o'er and o'er the quaint lullaby song
+(That will never grow wearisome tho' life be long),
+And watch the sweet drowsiness creeping apace,
+Till sleep holds the wee one in tender embrace.
+
+[Illustration:]
+
+"_Soft and low is the little one's breath_
+While yet I am crooning so softly and low--
+
+[Illustration: Music G major and words: By, by, O baby, by, by baby]
+
+Unheeding the moments as swiftly they fly, with
+By, by, O baby, dear baby by.
+
+"Oh' the deep peace which can never be known,
+Can never be felt, save by 'mother' alone!
+As clasping, and folding, so close to her heart,
+The helpless young life of her own life a part--
+
+"She dreams as she sings, of a future so fair,
+Awaiting the child of her love and her care!
+And welcomes the visions that day after day
+With baby's sweet presence will nestle and stay.
+
+"Time passes, my _baby_ has suddenly flown,
+And left me a daughter to maidenhood grown.
+As _I_ did, e'en so does my bonny maid do,
+And--learns that sweet lesson so old and so new.
+
+"For _her_ comes a day when the wedding bells ring,
+And my darling to other than 'mother' must cling.
+Like mother, like daughter,' 'like father, like son,'
+'Tis an adage will live till all living be done."
+
+Grandma pauses a moment. Her listener cries,
+With a sweet look of sympathy in her young eyes:
+"And then you were lonely, poor Grandma! I know,
+But so was--my _great_ grandmama, long ago."
+
+A smile lights the dear, aged face, and again
+Grandma takes up her story. "Yes, dearie, but then
+It wasn't for long, because, darling, you see,
+A gift _I_ once gave was soon given to me.
+
+[Illustration: "_Learns that sweet lesson so old and so new_"]
+
+"The gift of a grandchild as fair and as sweet
+As the baby _my_ mother's heart bounded to meet;
+Oh, how my fond prayers 'rose in gratitude true,
+For the blessings of daughter and granddaughter too!
+
+"It seems but to-day! Oh, how proud am I now
+As I lay welcome kisses on baby's wee brow!
+A _Grandmother, I?_ How the bright years have flown
+Since I was a child scarce to maidenhood grown!
+
+"And now in my arms, looking up in my eyes,
+With orbs that are bluer than June's sunny skies,
+Behold my own grandchild! Ah, verily, youth
+'On double wings flies,' Grandpa says in good truth,
+
+"As he looks in my face where no longer the rose
+In my once dimpled cheeks in its loveliness grows,
+And marks the white locks mingling faster each day
+With the brown that old Time is fast stealing away.
+
+[Illustration: "_As he looks in my face_"]
+
+"And I, as he kisses our grandchild so fair,
+Note how soon has vanished the once raven hair
+That crowned his dear head on the day when he came
+To endow me with all his possessions and name.
+
+"So we grow old together, my husband and I,
+Walking steadily on 'neath life's changeable sky,
+As 'Grandpa' and 'Grandma' to little ones dear,
+Who come round our hearthstone with comfort and cheer.
+
+"And dearly I love the wee darlings to hold,
+And cuddle, and close to my warm heart enfold
+The dear precious forms, singing low o'er and o'er,
+The lullaby song I have sung long before.
+
+"The song which has sung their own mother to rest,
+The song which hushed _me_ on _my_ dear mother's breast,
+The song which belongs to the years long gone past,
+But which _mother_-love thro' all time will hold fast
+
+"And now comes a day when another fair bride
+From babyhood grown, stands so proudly beside
+The man of her choice; and her sweet eyes of blue
+Are glowing with happiness tender and true.
+
+"Within Grandma's arms for a moment she stands,
+Then bows her bright head 'neath the trembling old hands
+Uplifted to bless her, as Grandma's heart prays
+That heaven may keep her thro' long sunny days.
+
+"To father and mother sweet kisses of love,
+And prayers that God send truest peace from above;
+Thus 'mid the farewells that are merry, yet sad,
+My grandchild has entered _her_ new life so glad.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+"And lo! on this night while old Grandma is sitting
+Alone in the gloaming, while moments are flitting
+And bearing on wings that are sure and so fast
+The year that now _is_, to the years that are past--
+
+[Illustration: "_'Mid the farewells that are merry yet sad_"]
+
+"A sweet voice comes softly within my lone room,
+And sweet words float tenderly in thro' the gloom,
+As sings my dear grandchild so gently and low,
+To my little _great_-grandchild the 'lullaby--O.'
+
+"Which, catching my senses as idly they stray
+On the pinions of memory, bears me away
+To the far-distant realms of my own childhood's shore,
+Where the quaint old-time melody greets me once more.
+
+"Aye! dearie, 'tis hard when one's memory is straying--
+And back 'mongst the old scenes so fondly delaying--
+'Tis hard to wake up to the fact that old age
+In life's book of years will soon turn the last page.
+
+"Yet, dearie, I look on your young, happy face,
+All tender with motherhood's newly-taught grace,
+And realize, indeed, that Time steadily flies,
+Nor lingers to dally 'neath youth's joyous skies!
+
+[Illustration:"_On Grandma's thin cheek falls a kiss_"]
+
+"But speed as he may, be it never so fast,
+The thoughts which go winging their way to the Past
+Are swifter than Time, as you'll learn on some day
+When you, like your Grandma, are wrinkled and grey."
+
+On Grandma's thin cheek falls a kiss soft and sweet,
+Ere the young mother hastens with step all so fleet,
+To quiet her baby, whose startled grieved cry
+Can only be hushed with the old lullaby--
+
+[Illustration: Words and music:
+"Hush, my babe, lie still and slumber,
+Holy angels guard thy bed."]
+
+Crooning it softly, and crooning it low,
+Till again into slumber-land baby will go,
+While Grandma still sits in the shadowy room
+And smiles as the lullaby floats thro' the gloom.
+
+Now, as she sits thinking and smiling the while,
+Behold! Grandpa enters, and answering her smile
+(Which even the gloom from his eyes cannot hide),
+Draws near the old chair, and sits close at her side.
+
+Their hands steal together; dear hands, which have clung
+Thro' weal and thro' woe from the years which were young
+Till now, when by age made unsteady and weak,
+They yet tell the love which e'en lips may not speak.
+
+"Dear heart!" murmurs Grandpa, "I'm thinking to-night--
+As I look at the heavens with starlight so bright--
+And note how the moments so surely and fast,
+Will bring us the close of the year almost past--
+
+"I'm thinking how like to old age it does seem,
+And how o'er life's evening for you and me gleam
+The stars of God's mercies, to guide on their way
+The souls which are speeding towards heaven's glad day."
+
+"Ay, John," answers Grandma, "like children are we
+In the 'arms everlasting' just longing to be;
+Full soon you and I will be summoned to rest,
+And close tired eyes on the dear Father's breast."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Still softly and sweetly from out the next room
+Still floating and lingering 'mid shadow and gloom--
+The sound of the soft murmured "lullaby--O!"
+Is heard, while the mother sings gently and low--
+
+[Illustration: Music Sheet detail:
+"Hush, my babe, lie still and slumber,
+Holy angels guard thy bed."]
+And Grandpa and Grandma draw nearer together,
+And on Grandpa's shoulder lies Grandma's grey head,
+
+As closely he holds to his fond aged heart
+The wife from whose love he holds no thought apart.
+And so, while their fancies to auld lang syne cling,
+They lift their old voices, and quaveringly sing
+
+Way thro' to its end the dear lullaby song,
+So dear to them both for the years long agone,
+And straight from their hearts doth the melody flow,
+Tho' the tremulous notes are so faltering and slow.
+
+[Illustration: Music Sheet detail:
+"Hush, my babe, lie still and slumber,
+Holy angels guard thy bed;
+Heavenly blessings without number
+Gently fall upon thy head."]
+
+And now the sweet music hath reached other ears;
+The baby's young mother the lullaby hears,
+And, beckoning _her_ mother, they presently stand
+Within the dim doorway, and hand clasping hand--
+
+They listen and smile--yet with tears in their eyes--
+To the soft notes which out from the shadows arise
+From the hearts that old Time with his years and his--
+Could not rob of the sunshine of long, long ago
+
+The clock is still ticking the moments away;
+'Tis but a short time ere the old King must lay
+His sceptre, his crown, and his burdens aside,
+That the new King may come with the world to abide.
+
+And still the old grandparents quietly sit,
+Unmindful of moments, tho' fast they may flit
+Towards the hour of midnight, till gently at last
+Their daughter reminds them that "bedtime is past."
+
+"Ay, daughter," says Grandma, "'tis late without doubt,
+But father and I'll see this dear old year out;
+It has been a kind year, fraught with peace from above,
+And it brought us a dear great-grandbaby to love.
+
+"It has borne us thro' duties, or sorry or glad,
+And helped us find balm when our spirits were sad;
+It found us together in health and in peace,
+And leaves us together tho' _its own_ life must cease.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+"And so we will watch it fade softly from earth,
+And welcome the New Year to which God gives birth
+And may the dear Lord who for our sakes was born,
+Send blessings anew on the New Year's glad morn."
+
+Now hark! for the bells in the old tower's steeple
+Ring out with a clang to the world and its people;
+And merrily sounding afar and anear,
+Proclaim the glad tidings, "The New Year is here!"
+
+And from other steeples the noise is resounding,
+As jubilant bells the same story are sounding;
+And so 'mid the clanging, the poor old year dies,
+And the new youthful year opens wondering eyes
+
+_And so does the baby_! So frightened is he,
+His shrill cry rings out with the bells' jubilee,
+And quick to his side the young mother has sped,
+To bend o'er her baby's her own golden head
+
+While Grandpa and Grandma are listening to hear,
+'Mid the clanging of bells, the young voice sweet and clear,
+Which tenderly lays on the New Year the song
+Of the dear "Old-time lullaby" cherished so long
+
+So softly it floats thro' the shadowy gloom
+Which tenderly broods o'er the old fashioned room,
+Where Grandma and Grandpa, while steeple bells ring,
+Again lift their tremulous voices and sing--
+
+[Illustration: Musical score G major, text follows:]
+
+"Hush, my babe, lie still and slumber, Holy
+angels guard thy bed, Heavenly .. blessings
+without number Gently fall upon thy head."
+
+[Illustration]
+CRADLE HYMN.
+_By Isaac Watts, D.D._
+
+Hush, my dear! Lie still, and slumber!
+Holy angels guard thy bed!
+Heavenly blessings, without number,
+Gently falling on thy head.
+
+Sleep, my babe! Thy food and raiment,
+House and home, thy friends provide;
+All without thy care or payment,
+All thy wants are well supplied.
+
+How much better thou'rt attended
+Than the Son of God could be,
+When from heaven He descended,
+And became a child like thee!
+
+Soft and easy is thy cradle:
+Coarse and hard thy Saviour lay,
+When His birth-place was a stable,
+And His softest bed was hay.
+
+Blessed Babe! What glorious features,--
+Spotless fair, divinely bright!
+Must he dwell with brutal creatures?
+How could angels bear the sight?
+
+Was there nothing but a manger,
+Cursed sinners could afford,
+To receive the Heavenly Stranger?
+Did they thus affront the Lord?
+
+Soft, my child! I did not chide thee,
+Though my song might sound too hard;
+'Tis thy mother sits beside thee,
+And her arm shall be thy guard.
+
+Yet to read the shameful story,
+How the Jews abused their King;
+How they served the Lord of Glory,
+Makes me angry while I sing.
+
+See the kinder shepherds round Him,
+Telling wonders from the sky!
+Where they sought Him, there they found Him,
+With His Virgin-Mother by.
+
+See the lovely Babe a-dressing:
+Lovely Infant, how He smiled!
+When He wept, His Mother's blessing
+Sooth'd and hush'd the Holy Child.
+
+Lo, He slumbers in a manger,
+Where the horned oxen fed!
+Peace, my darling, here's no danger;
+There's no ox a-near thy bed.
+
+'Twas to save thee, child, from dying,
+Save my dear from burning flame,
+Bitter groans and endless crying,
+That thy blest Redeemer came.
+
+May'st thou live to know and fear Him,
+Trust and love Him all thy days;
+Then go dwell for ever near Him,
+See His face, and sing His praise!
+
+I could give thee thousand kisses!
+Hoping what I most desire;
+Not a mother's fondest wishes
+Can to greater joys aspire!
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration]
+_L'ENVOI._
+
+_Dear aged friends, and loved ones who have turned
+Your faces toward the glowing sunset sky,
+While far below on paths that ye have trod,
+Life's mingled lights and shadows softly lie:
+May Peace be with you as you journey on
+To reach the summit of life's shadowed hill,
+And tho' the way seem toilsome here and there,
+May Hope and Faith your hearts with courage fill.
+Bear with you, as you go, our grateful prayers
+For your dear lives by heavenly mercy spared
+So long to us who love you, and with whom
+Life's burdens, great or small, your love hath shared.
+The crimson glory of the sunset sky
+Lies all about you, and falls gently down
+Upon your dear, grey heads, as tho' our Lord
+Hath wished already His loved saints to crown.
+Lift up your tired eyes "Unto the hills
+Whence cometh help," for lo! the Father stands
+To give you greeting, and to welcome you--
+When night brings rest--with tender, gracious hands._
+
+M. D. B.
+
+
+
+
+
+
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