The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1907-03-20
The Seven Ages.
written by JAMES HAHoEY and read at the Old Folks party
held In Hyde Park. February II. 1o07l
FIRST AGE.

FIRST AGE.
When father and mother infants, doubt
They just the sweetest babies about
laughing, crying plump rosy lump,
That crawls, toddles and falls the floor with thump
caessed kissed and cudded and petted quite off,
Had the measles and and the dread whoopng cough
There hope JOY and dsconenment and fears
Expressed by those watching their earlier years,
The angels were guiding the lives just begun
OF father and mother when they were young
SECOND AGE
Again fathers and mothers were young because
They old enough to know dear Santa Claus
How they danced with delight in the grey Christmas dawn
AS happy and gay as the birds Of the morn;
Sang songs and told stories on the cot by the door,
Played with dolls with marbles the old kitchen foo
Helped in the Kitchen pa in the shed,
Said their they knet by their low trunde bed
Paymates they, with their frolic and fun,
In the days when father and mother were young.
THIRD AGE.
They young when they sought education gain,
AT school or college, for honor or fame;
On the farm, in the kitchen, in business or art
Ever shaping the mind or training the heart
To battle with nature on life's stormy sea,
Thus setting examples for you and for
Whatever their station they tried to do right
In seeking for wisdom, knowledge and light
Schoolmates we've they in the new life begun,
In the days when father and mother young
FOURTH AGE
Father and mother were young once again,
When was pas sweethet IT. and pa mas young man.
And they thought when out to picnic or ball,
That pas girl and mas beau was the best OF them all
One thing must mention, I'd almost forgot:
Pa proposed accepted right there on the spot.
There smiles, aud bushes, and caresses given,
the that they made record ID In heaven.
Love, sweet love- the song that they sung
In the days when they were happy and young.
FIFTH AGE.
Father and mother were young when they started in life
with pa mas husband pas wife
They toiled side by side in sunshine and rain,
Cheered and comforted each other in and pain.
In rearing family, the trials they passed through
win never be known to me and to you
With love and devotion as firm as a rock,
They tendery cared for their gathering hock
with hope for the future prayer on the tongue
For wisdom they sought to guide them when young.
SIXTH AGE
Thsy are Young though their heads slvery grey
For their beauty and youth have all passed away.
See their dear smiling faces when they speak OF the past
And live DER again the days that will last
In their memory forever and appear to their sight
AS bright spots like the In the darkness of night.
See the love they possess when they knee In the MORN
And pray for their children that's scattered and gone
Though aged and feeble life's sands nearly run,
There peace in their souls when they young.
SEVENTH AGE
They still young though now wrinkled and grey
For LIES span at most is but as day,
1t will not be long till we all meet
The fathers and mothers who have passed on before.
Like greeting old friends, from the tide,
Thcre'll be joy when meet on the other side
Their leave them, their eyesight grow DIM
But they still have the glorious promise OF Him,
Who has said when life's slender thread here rven
They all shall be young in the kingdom Of heaven"