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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. 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