This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ...of each will fondly roll! Old friends I No sycophants of yesterday, With smiles and protestations never done, Bright summer-flies, true "lovers of the sun" And all who bask beneath the golden ray. Old friends I who, on the battle-field of life, When closed the serried hosts in stormy fight, Have raised the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ...of each will fondly roll! Old friends I No sycophants of yesterday, With smiles and protestations never done, Bright summer-flies, true "lovers of the sun" And all who bask beneath the golden ray. Old friends I who, on the battle-field of life, When closed the serried hosts in stormy fight, Have raised the buckler Friendship strong and bright And borne us bleeding from the mortal strife, Who heart-whole, pure in faith, once written friend, In life and death are true unto the end! THE WINDOW-PANES AT BRANDON Upon the window-panes at Brandon, on James River, are inscribed the names, cut with a diamond ring, of many of those who composed the Christmas and May parties of that hospitable mansion in years gone by. As within the old mansion the holiday throng Reassembles in beauty and grace, And some eye looking out of the window by chance, These memorial records may trace--How the past, like a swift-coming haze from the sea, In an instant surrounds us once more, While the shadowy figures of those we have loved, All distinctly are seen on the shore! Through the vista of years, stretching dimly away, We but look, and a vision behold--Like some magical picture the sunset reveals With its colors of crimson and gold, --All suffused with the glow of the hearth's ruddy blaze, From beneath the gay "mistletoe bough," There are faces that break into smiles as divinely As any that beam on us now. While the old year departing strides ghost-like along O'er the hills that are dark with the storm, To the New the brave, beaker is filled to the brim, And the play of affection is warm: Look once more--as the garlanded Spring reappears, In her footsteps we welcome a train Of fair women, whose eyes are as bright as the gem That has cut their dear names on the pane. From...
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