Mountain Democrat. [volume] (Placerville, El Dorado Co., Cal.) 1854-1860, 1858-06-26

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80 yaasS have passed, yet recall
tirI6hteasly love 81 mine:
,'1he UesNsa hOU.s, thgir raPid Fight;
@s 'Hef httsFD-h0W tlvinei
Th0 tsweb ma preferred her,
,.oAkd wnie& shS ETasped elated:
70 hxsty aocspt u her tongue
81 .1Katiped, hoped, and waited.
'rTAa FasaSt books sought for her,.
40 PiCtaTeA music, flowers;
kil'RUea Osuld buy, freely bought,
- n eheeehsr loaely houTs.
81: bow Ioved 70 gaze upon
Her hair, 20 nicely plaited
An4lUhaa SAe sang simple song,
lhaAsnod. heped, and waited.
-naAas1siseia TIE early sprias.
The sun Was brightly shining,
We - uPO0 amessy bank,
o. rather were FeeheiDG:
yNHh@AWssgsatly elsHpsA n mise,
While my ISVo felased;
She answered NOT, bua gave . sigh:
listened, hoped, and waited.
We parted there, my hopes were high:
Again we met a. ever;
How beauteous seemed the earth and sky!
How balmy seemed the weather.
Her hair % smoothly plated:
For these toiled and struggled ON,
listened, hoped, and waited.
But Time, the certain arbiter
OF all our hopes aud fears,
nat wrinkles cen the smOOtheSt brow,
With swiftly gliding years,
At last its lesson brought 10 me,
A lesson soop related:
NY blue-eyed girl, the one for whom
i liatenQd hOnad and wnitod
Had in dark and stormy night
Between "the late and early"
EbePonGSAd-left her friends
That girl loved 90 dearly!
AnA thus my books and jewels rare,
That hair 30 nicely plated,
Had gonS-Wdth every thing for which
listened, hoped, and waited.
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All ye who try loves knOtty skein
Win rAttHAce to unrAyeL
. Just learn from me that Jordan i
a.. ;. A dusty road to trGUel."
g, Just keep your books and jewels rare,
Until you re fairly mated,
And keep in view the verdant youth
dt Who listened, hoped, and waited.
poem Of equal grace and beauty with the foIlowin
rare The closing cOupiet viii exact particular adni
\. l know thy heart remembers me,
In all its pain and pleasure .'..
A4drgfs Wy own goes bAck 70 thee,
Its last aud dearest treasure:
It's mine TO gaze on stormy seas, .
And view the wreck Of glory there
thine 70 feel Lies morning breeze,
Unnixed with all its chill despair.
70 ksonstimes eall the world MY home TO-. p
The world which hath bereft me-
And dream, awhile, that Joys will come,
As bright a. those that l6is nae;
And then, some wounded bird will stray
From mem,ry,S track Of xithered flowers,
To hutter DER my future way,
And sing the drge Of hOGsr hours.
The day which died on yonder height,
Shall live agnin Tomorrow;
But when the heart goes down in night,
Z 1t inds-nO morn from sOrrow; '.
The frOwn of night, the smile of dawn, n
Will vainly gid or gloom the sky
80 It's always night now thou art gone
Twas ever day when thou vert BY.
Thou nay'ss not feel that have loved,
As man no mUre may love thee,
Until the VOWS Of men have proved
.,t.. Vain a. The clouds above thee;
But down the burial vale of years
Ny words will rise with memories rife,
Like grAye-stones, vet with useless tears,
Which cannot bring the dead to life.