The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1860-10-19
Coming Back Soon.

you arc cunning back soon :: overy ono
says to tho eager boy goiGg out from tho
quiet CT bis native village TO make his way
in the great bustiine world beyond.
oh. ves-as sooD as have made my
fortune" is tho laughing reply. and tho
good bycs arc exchanged. and tho yelling
stagc coach rolls of. bearing moro hope and
happiness upon its back ecat, than with tho
Same occupant il will ever bring back again.
Coming back soon!" The boy littlo
knows that ho never can come back -
Something may come that will ho taller. aud
moro graceful. and moro attractive. aud cali
his paren's father and :hing
that will look half sadly amt half cUntemp.
tuously on tho old familiar place where his
youth was spent---but the bov--happy.
eager. hopeful aud innOcent-has gone for.
ever
Coming back soon !" Is this Young lady
ringleto and fiounccd and glovcd. who PLAYS
tho piano to a ch arm. aud looks askance at
tho kitchen towel and broom. tho sun
brownod. good naturod littlO Maggie, who
wore hor hair IN curls flying in the summer
wind--but this young lady's locks arc po.
matumed, scented, carefully dome up" ac-
cording to the latest fashion. Maggie wore
n blue qingham frock, which had always
ing thing in existence; but miss Mar
guerite" arrays her dainty limbs in tho most
eypousiVo silks. and wears hoops Of such vast
circumference that he can only lock on
and admire at respectful distance. Some
| times, US they cit sido by sido. TO remembers
tho old times, and half wishes they could
come back agsin--but his first glance at tho
composed face beside him annibilates the
oG ai,.h
aud lets it pass away. By and by, "Miss
Marguerite" ia married to rich old matt
old enough to DO n grandfather. lle goes
to her wedding. aud he drinks her health
| ia tho bost Of wino-hegins 10 dream him
self ofa wealthy wifn and thinks il won't de-
to bc foolish, and, that he must havo an aye
to business whom hc givos himself away
Tho fast young man and tho woman oi
fashion meet oftou in their gay city lifo--
but tho hoy and girl who walked ;osethor to
| school, havo COMO straying away together
over the strawbnrry fields aud dasiod pas
turos long ago and no ono thinks of saying
to them, You arc coming back soonl"
Coming back" Who over yet com,
hack, and found all things unchanged
Drive up tho long remembered roads, nnC
you will miss hore treo, here a patch o
m old gray farm house which YOU fondl,
hoped would ouilast your day and genera
tion. Enter tho town which WAS cnce 6;
happy valley" to you. and what do you see
Only puny little village, with the ploasan
walks you used to loye, turned into ambi
tious side walks. and pavod with toughest "
stonrs. with Old familiar houses aud funco
remodolcd and nowly painted, ill YOU los,
| al fhf, Ian, RI Ia .,a unI
and you. il may be most of all Sit down
it you will. in your lonely room; call u,
the forms Of III 80 YOU ,v~ Cd who are nov
scattered away, and try to poopio the dust,
streets with more beloved faces. Can yo,
succeed Is 1t not II poor, palo phantom
that YOU strive to press to your aching heart
Was 1t wise in you. after ALL this looming
back :" Oh, tho pasI is beautiful to look at
but when afar off. wo stretch out our hand
to bring It noarcr, it vanishes, and leave
nothing in our grasp but thin and unsub
Btantial air
Strange T. sat in my lonely room to
day, and miss something familiar-somo
thing understanding dear-very dear
1t will never lingcr here again; tho sunligh
falling through tho easement will nevo
shine on mo horo any more. Ono page n
lifos romance has been road shut tho bool
and put it away. Much that might hav
blessed me-much | might have loved
and much that | can novor hope to NEE
again-has consecratcd this littlo room
has pissed sway like dream OF beauty
aud will beam and brighton hero no more
it is not, cannot be coming back soon.
T But there is a lnnd-,hank Gud--thore
a land whoro all the lost light and lowell
ness of life shall cluster around US with tor
told the glory it has won for US here
Thero is land whero there shall be n
more partings and no moro tears. where I'll
young and tho old, the happy and ii
: wretched, tho bond and the free, shall alik
e kpow tho loving kindness and tondor moro
9 of God whose divnost attribute is love-
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