James Deruyter Blackwell
Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 38
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 edition. Excerpt: ... TTTE are passing away as a bright summer day, VV When the hours of gladness fly swift as the wind; As a dream of the night we are passing away, And leaving the world and its sorrows behind. From the schemes of ambition, the hoardings of wealth, From the gay dream of pleasure we soon will be gone, And the cheek now suffused with the bright glow of health Shall tell by its pallor the spirit hath flown. We are fading away as the flower of the plain; We are dying away as the bird's failing song; We are passing away as the stream to the main, Where its wave glides in silence and beauty along. We are passing away as the summer cloud flies, O'er the green fields outspread in their beauty below; We are wilting away as the autumn leaf dies, When cold on its bosom the wintry winds blow. We are passing away to the deep, narrow grave, And the clods of the valley shall cover our bed, Where the night wind shall sigh, and the willow shall wave Its low drooping boughs o'er the home of the dead. We are passing away to a world all unknown; To the dim land of dreams which no mortal may know-- Where death's gloomy shadows in darkness are thrown O'er the pathway, concealing its weal and its woe. Yea; the hour is coming when the heavens, in flame, Shall eclipse by their splendor the brightness of day; When the end of all things the last trump shall proclaim, And peal the loud dirge of their passing away. RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED TO MADAME POZZONI. FORGET not the dead, though lowly they lie, Far down in the deep, gloomy grave; But sad be the tone and moist be the eye, When we speak of the earth-shrouded brave! They died in their youth. They have drank of the cup, So bitter for young hearts to drain-- They have perished as flowers for us, giving up Their lives on...