Demoine courier., 1855-08-02


Sweet Alice with hair so brown;
Who ept with delight when you gave her
smile.
And trembled at every frown?
In The old ehurch-yard, in the valley Ber
r spBolt, v s--.
I'm a corner secluded ard lone,
They have fitted a slab OF granite so gray,
And Alice lies under the stone.
Ias8s .ss 10 s1..N @ ENGLISH.
Don't you remember" Arc these
three magic woyds--a key wlerewith we
may unlock the aoodgales Of the heart,
and send he sweet waters Of the pasi
over The plains and down the hills OF thai
fair lard, known in orI hear. experience
as by,gone? Even so. There rise be.
fore US, visions Of the time when the
arighl,dee eyes Of tie youngspring gazed
shyly a. US from beneath the Grained
mantle of w~inier--when the blue %violeis
stole their first tin, from The sky above;
when the cowslips Of sammy May, and
The golden hearted bu,tefcups frs. jew.
elled the slender blades Of grass; and
the hawthorn grew white with i,s bios
SONS: when we ro1med the woods the
whole Of tha, long. warn loveable July
holy day, w~eating garlands and listening
TO the concer, of birds in that dark, mis-
lleto wteathed, oaken forest. There
was one, in years agone, that prayed:-
Lord keep my memory green and the
clinging tendris Of our hearts 60 ever
back yearninsly to This prayer.
But green and fresh as the poets pray.
er, had the hear, of Ben Bolt been kept.
From his early ooyhood TO tie hour he
sal by his old friend, and listened 10 the
song Of By gone days. Not Through a
glass darkly,' did ho revie W those scenes
Of the past, butt, was the going back OF
he boy hear, to others Of childhood.
There was a little old red school house
with its dusty windows, and desks that
had been uicked many a time, try ing
penkNises;its tall, Stern looking teacher,
whose heavy voice caused the younger
ones to trembfe, lis rows Of boys and
girls with their heads bent ai;entively
downward to their books and s!aies.-
The wild winter wind sang mid whislled
without, n some lew childish hearts
tried to find words for its mournful notes,
they were 100 Young and HAPPY 10 know
that II CARED desolation and heartache
in fts wall, We, did they learn il in after
yeafg
Then there come a lew light round
snow balls SO 'lny 'aatl' mus. have been
the spor'o OF the snow spIrr's: IN Their cid
rich revels, changing, by and6y, TO ieath
cry flakes that danced about ever so gaily
How ;hs chlldren's e., es grew bright as
they focked nj one another. and thoughts
OF the merry rides down the hill, and
The snow baillng that would make the
play ground ring again. The last les
sons were saId' books n states pet
aside, aud IN the mace OF silence reign
ca glad voices. Nate Ashley 0 back
her pretty rlngless' and laughed through
her sparkling eyes, az che gave jamie
Marvin that bi. of curl he bad teaset so
long Tor, because she knew jamie had
The pret'iess sled N the whole school
An, a bit oil coquette was the same glee
fol, romping Kate. And there was So
phie Dale. looking as demure as a kitten
walking from a pan Of milk; in spite
Of her qnlet looks; and the stately Eliza.
beth Queen Bess they call her-and
question II England's QUEEN had .
carriage. pa. apar' from nose
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