The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-07-14
VALED1CT0RY.
COMPOSED AND READ BY MISS N. 1RMA
PETERAIAN, AT SAINT NINCENTS
ACADEMY, SHREvEPORr,
JUNE 80, 1885,

And spurned i'll my heart their sad
lurking,
As they weiied forth anon, and told OF
to-day,
Of gloom-clouds that time was there
working.
l dreamed but shadow would screen
back the light
That smiled DER this bright rosy dawn
ing,
And thrust them away-those grief
thoughts, in fright,
To muse on the charms of this morning.
1t is real! must go-no longer the spell
Holds back my fond spirit, enchanted
For times mystic bell is sounding fare
I'd lingcr! Oh. might this be granted.
Dear school-days all DER : Like phantoms
they've sped
The hours tarry are numbered
Are counted already! Too soon have they
tled,-
Awaking within me what slumbercd.
Adieu, then-it must be--swcct mead
ows, where oft,
In calm Silly hours at even,
Eve gathered gay tiorets, Oh messy banks
soft,
Fair Nature had lavishly given.
Ye flow'r-decked Fairgrounds, my young
heart will cling
! To you and your treasures resplendent !:
Is there in this wide world a spot that
will fling
Farewell, then, to thee, my childhood's
| sweet home,
! To all that hath made thee endearing !;
To thy old classic halls, meath ivy-twined
dome,
To thy wild songsters' warblings so
cheering.
Even were my dwellings i'll mansions of
bliss,
| Pd WOO back these calm, peaceful hours;
In fancy's fair dreaming my home would
be this,
bowers.
Dear schoolmatcs, I've cherished so long
and so well,
When youths sweetest joys clustered
| round us,
That chain is unbroken by the goodbye
For loves golden linklets have bound us.
Then oftimes-I know it-at low eventide
Whilst prayerful are decades ye're
breathing,
Yell think that your Irma still walks at
your side,
The same rosy coronal wrcathing.
And when shall wander where dream
land Is mirth-
| Transported where angels are dwelling /;
Then it in love visions l seek them on
| earth,
'Tis 'mong you, my glce founts are
yelling.
Revered and kind Father, as life jour
neys on,
All rough-hewn, or radiant with splen-
dor,
How fondly sweet memory will ponder
alone az
Your precepts and counscls so tender.
Oh! them will cherish, should wild bill
| lows mar
The calm sea dreamed lay before ne,
There find in those nlaxims my cleaning
hope star,
And rest i'll the light it sheds DER me.
Dear Sisters, fond Teachers, must need l
then 90
From guidance I fancied unendings
To drink from tho chalice, perchance full
of woe,
Concealed in gay Pleasures pretending
He knowcth-that God-who ruleth on
| high
My pleadings. They brook not con-
trolling,-
He heareth each cry that mounts to the
Where great orbs of light are now
rolling
And there will He number in figures of
gold,
Loved Sisters, your kind deeds untiring;
Their lustre will dazzle through ages uu-
told,
All worthy pure Angels admiring.
Alden, last, to you, my friends true and
best.
When ewes sunny beamlets are climbing
That old belfry dear, ere darting far west,
To sink, with the "Angelus" Ginning
All then let it be, whilst lowly at prayer,
Ye're garlands for Heaven combining,
That memory will Gull me a pure budding
| rare
For the crown Gods spirits are twining.
Once upon midnight dreary,
I was tossing weak and weary,
For / had a fit of ague,
And my bones were very sore.
Suddenly read a label,