The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1850-07-06
For the Ottawa Free Trader.
Our Life a Dream.

SO says the poet and so say We Look if YOU
will Mt the infant in its mothers arms. How sool
il arrives to I've n man; how soon to old age ant
ere the tale is fully told, he is numbered witt
those beyond the food. Three score years ant
ten is mans allotted pilgrimage here--death clio
ses the scene, and the occuper Of the soil leaye
this frail tenement of earth for the untricd real
tiles of the future.
But, when they tell US the old man must die
they tell us no more than what is true thougl
they tell lis not ALL II man were to live his tire,
score years and ten under nm auspicious Provi
dencc, then leave for worlds unknown, dream
would be but the measure Of his life, Ask th,
eyed to refer you TO the years Of his childish play.
when in by gone days he used to toss the ball o,
tly the kite lie will remind YOU Of their brew
ty; that they seem but rs u day that is past
dream so fleet is time in its onward march, car
rying along with 1t millions Of animate creation
from the commencement of life to its finale Blu
tieeter still, when man lives not half his days
Flectcr by tar, when the aged father is called tc
part with n son, who in the bloom Of life hac
tecome the supporter of his aged parent Me
thinks hear the fathers voice as with lingering
look he bends over the last remains of his depart,
ed son,-and these perchanCe are the words tina
find utterancc, "Our days are few, a span of lif,
is all that we can boast" BY far more fleet, 50,
again. when the aged matron of three score YEAR
follows to her final resting pocea daughter who's,
years had not exceeded half her own. Trul,
then, is magic here; and we are forced to say
that Life Is IA dream"
The fond brother is called from distant lant
To visit the couch Of an only sister, whose palli,
cheek and cmaciatcd frame, give certain indica
tions of a speedy dissolution. Again he looks, anC
her spirits fled. The last requiem is sung owe
her last remains, and her body is conveyed I,
the tomb. Earth to earth. and dust to dust"
a sister is seen vending her way to yon r,ira
dwelling, where lies on the bed Of death font
brother, in whose younger days, hours Of mrth
fulness gdcd rapidly by while in sisters pres
ence But now ah what change, Yesterda,
life buoyant with health and strength. toda,
hc is called TO take his exit from time The toni
is closed upon his clay tenement What sa,
those who have rendered their last services of re
brea,hings of a sisters lovel A.a>! ms we hay
told you before. SO now We hear them say, "Lf
is dream"
but times withcrng blast does not stop here
II this were the boundary Of his unsatated ava
rice whence the cry of parents and children, wild
ows and orphans Whence their mourning ha
bilimcnts which gives evidence Of u near and ten
der relative, n child of tender years, or an inian
just lsplng his mothers name, leaving this earth
"Tcll me thou reverend Chronicle Of the grave
When will the register of life be tiledi Hark
mcthinks | hear one answer When the heaven
ly Messenger shall place one foot on the land, an
the other on the sea, and proclaim with trumpc
tongue that "rimc shall be no more" Then, bu
not till then will it cease to be known that "l.if
il dream Pr.