New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1844-06-21
TIE TRIBUNE.
For The Tribune.
FAREWELL.

Nv own, nv own dear home.
Mid other scenes, in joy and pain,
wanderer TO roam.
Strangers NAV smile as well as frown,
And Love and Hate profess;
would not bid the blast go down,
Nor spurn the fond caress.
A bleeding heart I'll proudly wear,
Amid this life's unrest;
And every pang corrodins there
Shall steel my tortured breast.
The cheerless misery that sears
Nv brain, with mad'ning thrill,
Shall burn, unquench'd by flowing tears
Dark, .moold'ring, viewless still.
A settled smile, or frown, shall keep
The secret springs of wo, :.
Liks subterranean fres, that sleep
Meath verdure, frost and snow.
That smile and frown-,he cowl and cope
That weary spirits wear
To mask, when reft Of every hope,
The cankering Of care,
Shall bid defiance TO the herd
neither fear, nor hate,
And every glance-ay, every word
Mock the DEGREES of fate.
All, sister, start not from their cell
Such bitter thoughts will rise,
When with sigh III orient spell
Ofour existence dies.
And mine is broken To the past
look, and call aloud
On joys in drear excitement cast,
Wrapt in pail and shroud.
An answer, even while call,
Comes like funeral knell,
Echoing through Deaths silent hall
The sad'ning word-farewell.
Away in silence let US turn!
Though thoughts for ult'rance swell,
Oh let them sleep in Mem'ry's urn,
Or die with-iare-t hee-well.
Brother, the wish'd-for day is here,
And we are men together;
Look forward, all is dark and drear,-
Behind US sunny weather.
When on yon hills we roved and dream'd
This hour would open heaven,
Upon our untried spirits stream'd
RAYS to youth only given.
Those brilliant CLEANS of youth have fed,
They shine on boyhood's shrine,
With joys and hopes withered and dead,
The lights Of by-gone time.
Mid other scenes we now must fill
A. nd drpin the cun nj life
Oh lot us love each other still,
Through sunshine, calm and strife.
Farewell! with me thy mem'ry lives
With thee my love shall dwell,
While echo to the future gives
The sad'ning word-farewell.
Oh, father, may thine evening star
Shine 10 cloudless sky;
And gather round it from afar
A light that cannot die.
fondly thought with thee TO pass
The peaceful hours Of even,
But Providence 10 me, alas
A sterner LOT hath given.
To meet that high behest go;-
Ifnow we part for ever,
Farewell! Ills hard-but be it So
Lies dearest ties must sever.
Dost doubt my hearth these flowing tears
Bespeak its strength and truth,
And whisper that through future years
Shall shine the love Of youth.
Thy silv'ry hairs still shall see
Thy voice remember WE'LL
Till time, as would now 10 thee,
Bids me farewell-farewell.
Mother, to other lands wend
A long and weary way;
Mother, with Thy fond name shall end
This sad, this parting lay.
Dear guardian Of my infant years,
Dear monitor of truth
Dear chronicler of hopes and fears,
Dear star of halcyon YOUTH
call upon that living King
Who fills the courts above,
To shield thee with his gracious wing,
And crown thee with his love.
First loved, last loved, forever too
Shrine of affection still
Too soon-too soon, adieu, adieu
Too soon-too sosn, farewell
Thy love from Graded slumbers borne
Shall onward, upward soar,
And in the heaven Of mem'ry burn
Unquench'd for ever more.
rlin, Ohio. 1874 .. w.
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