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. 1898 Excerpt: ...In a moment of pleasure does fade, Yet each pleasure encased in our joy's coronet But enhances the grief o'er us laid. REFLECTIONS. Reflections. How a single word may shiver All our fondest hopes! How with pain a heart must quiver, While for love it gropes! How dear, loving ones are parted, Love fringed with despair! ...
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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. 1898 Excerpt: ...In a moment of pleasure does fade, Yet each pleasure encased in our joy's coronet But enhances the grief o'er us laid. REFLECTIONS. Reflections. How a single word may shiver All our fondest hopes! How with pain a heart must quiver, While for love it gropes! How dear, loving ones are parted, Love fringed with despair! How bright day dreams are distorted By the hand of care. Yet a stone cast in the river Ripples while it breaks; Cupid's dart is a retriever Of the wounds it makes; Yet the proud ships leave their moorings Greater wealth to find; Yet like tears, the soul's endurings Brighten while they blind. ILLS AND PILLS. Ills and Pflls. We mourn for the joys departed, And pine for the pleasure to come, We sigh over plannings thwarted, Unlearning the lesson therefrom; We husband our strength and our gains, To lose them before we can use; We chafe at our heart-rending pains, And the solace of Heaven refuse. 'T were better to take our pleasures As pearls in our necklace of stones, Nor count them among our treasures Or as steps in our lives' great thrones. But do what there is to be done, And think that best done done to-day, And cause for regret will not run In our lives but contentment will stay. FAITHLESS LOVER. faithless Lover. 10, say, little maid, So blithe yet so staid, Why lingerest thou here, Where hope sheds a tear?" Uplifting her face, So beaming with grace, She to me replied: '" 'Tis where my love died." 1 But, how, little maid, Can true love e'er fade? And why say'st thou here That love became sere?" A smile's on her face, Her eyes gleam apace. She slowly replied: "'T is where love was tried. BEWARE! TAKE CARE! Beware! Though a smile is most alluring, On a woman's face, That is where't is least enduring; Has the least of gra...
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