Lyrics of the heart With other poems. By Alaric A. Watts. With forty-one engravings on steel |
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THE ANNIVERSARY. |
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THE ANNIVERSARY.
Twenty chequered years have past,—
Summer suns and wintry weather,—
Since our lot, in concert cast,
First we “climbed the hill together.”
Summer suns and wintry weather,—
Since our lot, in concert cast,
First we “climbed the hill together.”
And the world before us lay,
In its brightest colours dressed,
As we took our joyous way
To select our place of rest.
In its brightest colours dressed,
As we took our joyous way
To select our place of rest.
Fortune's smiles we could not boast;
Fame,—we had not dreamed of Fame;
Friendship, even when needed most,
We had only known by name:
Fame,—we had not dreamed of Fame;
Friendship, even when needed most,
We had only known by name:
Fate denying trappings rich,
We decked our bower with humbler things,
And, in Friendship's empty niche
Love installed—without his wings.
We decked our bower with humbler things,
And, in Friendship's empty niche
Love installed—without his wings.
There, though twenty years have fled,
Chequered o'er by good and ill,
He lifts aloft his beaming head,
The same young, household idol still!
Chequered o'er by good and ill,
He lifts aloft his beaming head,
The same young, household idol still!
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