Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1854-11-29
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10 MIME.

TO MIME.
Well remember when our forests pride
The pinUs storbus reared its lofty head
Seeming to pierce the eouds-whlst wide
The sycamore and tree Of heaven spread
Their banehesi the maple in its levoliest green
lNo longer, pierced, yielding sweet return)
The elm and souibre yew varying tho scene
And with the ash, conspring all, to turn
My gaze from a sweet cottage, almost hid
By their thick varied foliage, and bid
Me view dame natures lovely lace--me thought
Change could not surely be with pleasure fraught.
My memory recalls more clearly when
With quicker step and in my sortout clad
! visited my lavorite haunt again,
And think it not strange my thots at first were sad
The cheerful birds no longer warbled there
The playful tawn frisked not upon the lawn
BY nnught could | distinguish tho parterre
save iea1ess stOcks-their beauty, fragrance gone.
The trees whose shade loved here and there
Unsightlv leaves-of foliage were devoid
The noble pine clothed in its mourning gear
Alone was left my heavy heart to cheer
And its melancholy wall enjoyed
need not tell you that thon espied
lovely work of art--a cottage, near;
Which enviOus nature formerly had tried
Ie keep attention trom-me thought for fear
Her charms would be forgotten. l ween
Tho time pass'd rapidly till spring returnd
When nature like the labled Phoenix burn'd
Rose from her ashes, and in lively green
Attired herself once more--I learnt at home
For that sweet cot ere long my home become
the pleasures which from converse sweet doth rise
And ininnt prattle--and the signs of love
The freside only knOws-which by careless eyes
Unsonght, are seldom found, but known Ger prove
Superior to the lovers paradise.
The lovers heGven-home All! then found
The trees, the shrubs which did my home surround,
But drew attention from-yet beautiied
What stands ON Clearfeld's lovclicst spot
Ny once neglected, now admird cot
Where peace and love forever shall reside.
Words, uttcrd perhaps in jest by you tonight,
Have, Mimic, caused in an old playmate's mind
These thoughts to rise. ! for amusement write
And dedicate 10 thee. different kind
Ny uuinyiting tedious verse must prove
From lis whose subject fancy is or love
Whose latitude is great. Oh may the day
Be distant far removed, dear girl, when they
We love SO well, no more our hearths shall bless.
But think not Mimic, if it should arrive
That you in this cold, selfish world would strive
Alone. Such thoughts should give you no distress.
Should that fond mother whose example taught
Christian iOrbearance--aud whose every thought
Tended TO thy advancement. She who laugh'd
At all thy childish sports--or when oerspread
With sorrow was thy brow-who quaE d
The dregs Of bittcmess-join the moura'd dead;
And should that brother, proyident and kind,
So like his father that less hard We find
His loss 10 bear-should he too die,
Aud leave thee as thOu thinh'st a prey
To misery-we'd mourn them-like a day
Spent with your dearest friends would fly
The hours ere you'd join your friends in heaven.
Then, Mimic, by such thoughts no more be grievC
Like to my cot to you then would BE given
The preference your family received. D.