The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-03-27
Original PoeticaI Contributions.
REPAKkTfON.

we have lived apart for a long, long time;
Us it two or three years, or twcntyD
We left one another, for both were young
And both had dear euCs plenty.
We sang and laughed and no matter who said
At first il was best to sever;
We thought it could end In a few short days
Aud all bc forgotten forever.
] know not how it has been with YOU
In thc lite you lave led without me
Ard my own heart fails when try To speak,
For know that you wcli might doubt me.
But, Oh in those days when We spoke so Hight,
we were surely the toys or the cruelcst fate,
OR the sport of the worst Of chances
We never thought thcrs of the days to come,
In the merry crowds oi the th"tigLS4os world
For love and tgith uHuylnS-
When one might need a true, strong arm,
To help and tO defend her;
And one, TO save him from the world
tie more dear ana tender.
Oh. time. turn backwart!-let rs staul
Once more, as then. TOY ether;
l feel that life since then has brought
But little JOY To either.
Oh fooIisl, fears. oh petty pride!
Oh love so long disScm3lgd
Let truth come bravCly from he lips
Where ii so long has trem5lcd.
Ny life without you has been lone
With ali the world around me;
To you alone, those last sad words
For Lille and denth have bound me y. X. w
THE SCHOOL HOUSE IN THE GLEN.
Oh well do I remember when
We arst began 10 use the pen,
In that old school house, near the glen.
Ia dear old Chester county
And through the fine, warm, sunny days,
We all were ted in pleasant ways,
While birds sang in the leafy maze,
In good old Chester county
When torrid day had grown to noon
" heard the CCascICss. chIrping tune
OF grasshOpper, long wBys.Ic brown,
IN sandy Chester county
And in the shady grove, hard Lr,
- { heard in monotone, the cry
OF locust, mid the Il ers, on high.
In leatS Chester county
Then thro' the cornfields we would stray,
AND chase the little chipmunk gay,
When, haply, We wOul! lose uUr way,
In fertile Chester county!
In russet Autumn, cbcstnuts brown
Would come, ia showers, down,
And tap OH many \ curly crown,
In merry Chester county
When winter tore the withered leaves
From all the bare, surrounding trees
Al evening, there, we'd sing some Elecsy
In happy CEc5tcr county .
When sleet and STOW around us blew,
oh . IL WAS cosy, suns TO do
And say our grammar lessons through,
In snug old Chester county,
And mem 'ry yet retains the spell
Thrown round me in that quiet dell,
And there, " hiie Lille doth last. shall dwell
That sci UUI in Chester county.
A. j.. Il.
TIE BIRDS OF SUMNER.
Now the birds OF the summer are coming,
OVcrladcn with music and JOY.
Giving pleasure to ali with Iurlr concerts
or sweet music without au ~ o
You are welcome, dear frioads, with your sun
shine
Than YOUR music none sw"cter IL known;
Yes come back, with your music and Eladness
To the woods that SO iOug nave bSsn lone.
Little warbler, Wen never mOics; thee,
But will welcome tire back uiIh each Spring
IL HfrN#f In E
when the w o = with thy music doth ring
Filling ar with sweetest Of music.
AS thou'rt peTched upon some tow ring tree,
Where ! We sHJand l 'VC watched thee Tor hours,
Till I've wished / was happy like thee
CRESeON, PA, March .. 1874