The Tiffin tribune. [volume] (Tiffin, Ohio) 1848-1859, 1858-11-19
f4FFIN, OHIO, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1853.
aOomlnr Back Soon

! ou are coming bAok SoOnt every
one says to the eager boy who is going
out from tho quiet Of his native village,
to make bis way in the great buslling
world beyond,
Oh, yes-as soon as I have made my
fortune" is the laughing reply, and the
good byes are exchanged, and the yellow
stage coach rolls OF bearing more hope
and happiness upon It's back seat, than,
toiih the same occupant, il viii ever bring
back again.
Coming back soonl" The boy little
knows that he never can come back
Something may come that may be taller,
aud more graceful, and more attractive.
aud call his parents father and mother
something that will look half sadly and
haif'oontemptuously, on the old familiar
places whore his youth was spent--but
the boy--hapPy, eager, hopeful and limo.
cent-has gone foreverl
Coming back soouw Il this young
lady. ringleted and lounced and gloyed,
WHO plays the piano to charm, and
looks askanoe At kitchen towel and a
broom, the Drowned, good naturef
little Maggie, with whom he romped in
early days? Maggie wore her brown
hair in curls, dying ia the summer wind
- but this Young ady's locks are poma.
tuned, scented, aud carefully done up,
according to the latest fashion, Maggie
wore a blue gingham frock which has nj
ways danced before his vision as the most
charming thing in exisauce. but Miss
Marguerite" arrays her dainty limbs in
the most expensive silks, and wears hoops
Of such vast circumference that he can
only look on and admire at respectful
distance. Sometimes, as they sit side by
side, no remembers tho old times, and
half wishes they could come back again
but his first glance at the composed
face Of the lady beside him annihilates the
idea, and he heaves kind Of rueful sigh,
and let's it pass away. By.and.bye,
"Miss Marguerite" is married to a bald
headed, rich old man-old enough to be
her grauafathef He goes to her we
ding, and drinks her health in The best Of
wine--ho begins to dream himself OF a
wealthy wife, and TO think it won't do to
be foolish, aud that he must have an eye
to business when he gives himself away
The fast young man and the woman of
fashion meet often, in their gay city life
but the boy and girl who walked hand
in hand to school, have gone strayin
away. .t~gether avsr the strawberry fields
and daisied pastures long ago, aud no one
thinks OF saying to them ~" Y on are com
ing back soonP' r
Coming backl Who ever yet came
back, and found all things unchanged?--
Drive up the long remembered roads AMI
! you will miss here a tree, here patch Il
daisies and butterCups, and here AN old
grey farmhouse, which YOU had fondly
hoped would oulast your day aud gener
alton Enter the town which was once
"happy valley" to you, and what do you
see? Only puny liltle village, with th,
pleasant walks you used to love turned
into ambitious sidewalks, and paved with
the roughe5t Of stones, With the old iamil
iar houses and fences re.modeed aud new
painted, till you lose all the old landmarks
! with everything changed, and YOU. il
may be. most of all Sit down, then. if
you will, in your lionel roomi call up ,he
forms Of those you loved, W are now
scattered far away. and try 10 people the
dusty streets with more beloved faces -
Can you succeed2 Is il not poor. pale
phantom that you strive 10 press TO your
aching heart? Was il wise in you, alter
all, this looming back?" Oh, the pasl
is beautiful TO look at afar off, but when
we stretch out our hands to bring il near.
er, il vanishes, and leaves nothing in our
grasp but thin and uusubstsntial airl
Strangel sit in my lonely room to-
day, and miss something familiar
thing understanding very dearl 1t
will never linger here again; the sunlight
falling through the casement will never
play upon that soft, fair hairi the white
hand will never gather these blush roses;
the large blue eyes will shine upon me
here no more. One page OF life's romance
has been read shut The BOOB and put IL
away. Much that Might have blessed me
much might have loSed-much that
might have loved me-and much | can
never hop6 10 meet a gain -has consecra
ted this little room-has passed away like
dream Of beauty, and viii beam and
brighten Here no more; is not, cannot be
coming back soon"
But there Is a land-thank God there
Is land where all the lost light and-l5ye.
liness Of life shall cluster around us, with
nfold the glory it has worn for is herel
There is land where We shall sin and
sorrow no more; where there shall BE no
more partings. and no more tears; where
the young and The old, the hdpby aud The
wretched the bond and the free. shall
alike know the loving Riddns5s and tender
mercy Of a God whose diyinest attribute
is LoYe2
A suffering man, at public table. had
occasion 10 Use a pepper box. After
shaking Il and turning il in various ways
| he found that the nannnr WAS In no wise