The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-04-03


This lovely rcn is crowded with airy ships
launched upon i's surface every day and
hour-sbips great and email, stately and
s,rcnp or tiny and frail. The child builds
them freishtsd with hi'dish ambitions and
bopes, and is heired in It's work 10y the
woman whose DRAWINGS are blended by The
mystic alchymy Of motherhood to the com
rrehension and sy,npnby Of tho taby.
..soms OF these Days." How many times
the baby mind weavss its thoughts into
pratiling promises TO be fulfilled "Seme OF
these Daysv' How many times the mother
with the cheek Of the ltle emo pressing
softly against her own or lis tired head
pillowed upon her bosom looks out upon the
slsw'y gathering darkness of the summer
cleaning or lets her brooding eyes reflect
The winter freight snd rs umorr gently
comes tells, half dreaming herself, her
mu.ing, tender thoughts in what will be
"Some Of these Days"
Every day the craft put forth upon that
sun liz sea from every place in this world
where there are mothers TO love and little
children 10 be level 'ni people 10 dream
ror.rsr, Uow .,nv n b,,n q, n%;ci, and
noisel-ssly down and ieave no irnoo upon
the. surface because tho he.rrs TINT butt
them and frcighted them have ceased from
beating and gone from dreams and the dis
appointment Of dreams TO the endless glories
Of mlfllment! How many others vani-h
because the hurrying years take them awny
after despoiling them Of all the benu'i's
that once made them loved md cheriehc
"Soms Of these Days"--the days that
never come. All our lives VIC tuid and
launch there ships which do not return to
us, which, changing in form and Mshionng
and freighting as Ne become older, We never
reach What countless mmlriiude+ Of them
iherc are: how eur hearts with sadness and
tenderness and yearning dwell upon that
sen lying by the borders of ionder aud
Somewhere, not far frcm Drcnmland!
IL il n blessed sea, for il is ever open and
beaut full and bright, fee for us to snil upon
away from the hard or dark or ugly of the
real life. Clouds may be very low and
back above the shores on uhiol VIC live,
the stones may he sharp and many, but on
the sunlit srn or Somo OF these Dnys we may
sa, sw'H n ,T?% nsm fF i! yh!' and gather
dron make the voyages in'tinchVe'y. lucy
turn from, the trouh cs they haVc mn" " ~
smooth away the gloom IRON, "'''' '"e
with e1cursions To III" oil I"'se n"sn
and men aud women ubry the same ''"r"">
and learn to forget, Tor tho u'nc NJ ',",.
.nJ 20 hone. The Sea " Some Of these Day
I'll, ,.m.iu vhilo ihcre are human hearts Il
cherish hopes and human thoughts To ;,;'', itr"
them. Upon it's waves, shining IN uh'a'l'hl
--uaLt. tho baby boats laden with toys nn'
"c'R"''o, ",-e--l .ha-largcr ones win III
foat. will always bs gong dO"r--or ->l.Saf
penring or changing. In every life there
a time for voyagng and hoping and dream
ing on Some Of thc'c Days. In ever,
memory Some Of these Days is borno will
pnthos surrounding i.-tho p,,hos of fai
hopes vanished, of bright dreams gone, o
loved things lost foreVer-the pathos o
hopes and dreams and loves held by hearts
now still, spoken by voice, we will hear nc
moro GrecnpiNc Neps.