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1938.1.2 |
Object Name |
Pamphlet |
Summary |
An ODE entitled Examination of Union District School, 1853. I Days of our youth! with swiftest haste your pleasures glide away, and none can bring the morning back, or bid its glories stay: The noontide sun of summer shines with evanescent beams, And days pass on likd leaves that fall along the sutumual streams. II Life is a bright and sunny shore, where fruits and flowers grow, Where pleasure spreads her shady bower--where silver streamlets flow; Life, also, is a raging sea, where storms and winds prevail, And all who sail upon its tide must feel th shivering gale. III Our life! it is a changing scene, where friendship firm is riven, Bright hopes are curshed, and brightest joys decay as soon as given; The haleyon days of youth are fleet, and a transient dream, And clouds obscure the blithesome joys that bask in morning's beam. IV The year that's past, where has it gone-its charms and pleasures sped? The sunny hours that o'er us shone, where has their spendor fled/ Into the silent lapse of time; and we are left to morn, and pay the tribute of our tears, to memory's silent urn. V We soon must part, and bid these scenes a long and sad farewell: But round them oft small memory cling- affection fondly dwell; In deathless memory they shall live, where'er in life we stray, And will beguile our sorrows as we tread its lonely way. VI And s\as we part, and distant far from those loved scenes are gone, As in its wontwd channelled course, the stream of time flows on May we alll know the highest bliss, to us on earth is given, And seek, at last, the enduring joys of an Eternal Heaven. West Cambridge March 16. |
Published Date |
3/16/1853 |
Year Range from |
1853 |
Subjects |
Examinations |
Collection |
Arlington Historical Society Collection |