Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1907-04-18
a VIEW OF LIFE.

y, World. you great. unhappy stage.
You cheer with youth and crush with age.
Our souls but Scken to recall
That endless and unhappy fall
" hopes our youth had held so fast.
But to be rudely crushed ut last.
In dreams alone We find relief.
But wake too soon. for dreams are brief
Aye. wake 10 know the human mind
Can never leave one care behind.
We gladly would again repair
Unto our couch and dream fOre'er
Dreams pass; but in u sentient mind
Those good and kind Impressions find
Lodgmcnt. Even as we dream
Things real and pleasing only seem
Quite transient and We wake at last
our troubles here. our transports past.
Soon after birth the grave appears.
And though the dust be wet with tears;
And though the heart in anguish call
Where earth and human. mingling, fall:
And though WE gaze long ON the urn.
From there no buried loves return
Rrlent essly the grave doth hold
The young in life, the strong, The old:
The ragged beggarS from the street
With wealth and pride and pomp there meet
The sage and btbbling idiot die;
ietin one common earth they lie.
AS pebbles thrown into the sea.
They sink into eternity.
ripple on the fretfu wave.
lis all The surface is serene,
Ana Is AS though they had not been.
Aud on we go BY toll alone
We get the mite we call our own.
We struggle ON, but cannot fail
10 tiEd the dark the dismal trail
ihat leads us to our certain doom
The end of all the dismal tomb.
Life. at best. too soon is run.
The little that we might have dcne
Is lcsscned by load of cares:
And, thus cngrosscd, time unawarc>
an
Yes; dotagc comes and youth Is gone.
IN vain We shade the feeble eye
To scan the future cloudy sky.
And hope 'gainst hope TO see. afar
one ,,o,ne ray Of promise. one bright star
70 guide us through the gathering gloo n.
we see. alas. the opening tomb.
Tile rugged road of life Is fr ught
With many hartishipS. and we're taught
That lesson which is long as life:
Ecu though were masters In the strife
THAI leads us Ia the goal We sought.
some one has lost who nubly fought
How often we arc forced to yield
Some fond desire and quit the field.
When others. with less yielding grace.
l'ersistcntly usurp our place.
Or We, less favored In some way.
Act minor parts in life's great play
An. little does the happy heart
Feel the poisoned, singing dart
u throws at love. In heenless scori.
In hot pursuit. with love new born.
~ other idols, false or true
Forsaking old love FOR the new.
Love fondly flies both fast and far
TO meet its own-its guiding star;
But. IL we judge OF her Alright,
She can effect but one true flight;
And. IL she fail, none may recall
Her dropping pinions from tho fall
Tears are woes refreshing dues,
Which with a lavish hand She strews.
10 freshen flowers OF love cast down.
Arll tytA.N l,,s. ~,
VI thorns. and felt the awful pain
pricking into heart and brain:
Such SORROWS come, oft in "A day:
But long ;ts life do they delay
| Their parting. and the closing hour
Take so areaTyy Whale tns Gyy STU asyour
| The banc that wears the life away.
4 But Shall we seek no more to find
Some one 10 whom we may be kind
| Some one to whom we may impart
The secret burden OF the heart
| Some friend who is indeed a friend,
/ And VIII remain so to the end:
Yes; he who seeks his soul to save
For better worlds beyond the grave
In this one hope perchance may fnd
| A friend, indeed, and leave behind
The world, with her unhappy train
VI fears and sorrows, cares and pain
Our Ills are sometimes greater grown
BY being often thought upon.
But hard il is to check the tide
Of tears and set our grief aside.
lis hard tn reconcile the breast
To give up those we love the best.
Our Ills are slight If we compare
With homeless people everywhere.
Poor, sad sufferers, who can not
Pity them their unhappy lot
Can see the tears o'erow the eyes
And feel no pain where passion lies:
The world. with all its bountcous store.
Denies them, but to hoard the more.
1T thus behOOveS us all to he
Easily moved to charity.
For who may not. howc'er he dread.
o, were we only made to see
The vastncss OF eternity,
And And. With VI III j. our short HE compare
TO act unkindly here below.
Or hoard up wealth To make II show:
But, as the birds that limp and cry
To lead from where their nestlinys lie.
Dishonesty is ever free
To work upon our sympathy:
And human pain not always lies
Where heave the deepest. longest signs.
And false the charms by beauty spread
False as the quaking mlre we tread;
And. when by those charms led astray,
We quickly mourn the luckless day.
And hearts beat forth their love again
With mad haste we pursue that sprite.
Pleasure Just ahead. in sight;
And. like the moth that seeks the light.
10 fall ere it can change its flight.
So W.. that chase these baubles bright.
Are trDpcd by fate all Is night.
Too oft it is that We dcspise
The common things. and highly prizr
Something SNOWY. yet Within
Bearing seeds of grief and sin:
And in despair We loudly cry;
But. !Ne the moth. too late W NY
our pleasures only lead a>tray.
by blank deception all the way
Lead as leads the wandering. light,
| Through bog and fen, az dead OF might;
Bnt disappear, doe, the frost
In the morning. and are lost
llAzftlnS. April IL. lso. tC. A. N