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Show ! MY 'GRANDMAMMA. '- ' BY S.VLI.IE A. BEOCK. SI." tell- nm 'br wa. h:1nJiimo cnCC, " lK-r e lit., juw.ls l.ngLt. Tbi unowy lets upun Lttr brow At.d o'r ber p.'!i-bi lionli!rs fell IIor"hps wero of tl- nl'hue. Her tfotli twin rwi of patrls. The ro( on lur ycclbfal cli-ka, l.:kc tbustf tl):it Lltieli in June. Wliin sky, and oanli, and sea, nod afr, To twsuty all nttariL-: Ilcr form a' ivulplor's m-dtl rare, JIure gluriou lliEin btr faof. Willi P'-'U Urr tllltfat gC.-IUfO Wlli The cry et'Ol ol H.'r oiso in ton-. a. -oftTy clcr . " soug.t'lrilN liquid uuli', Whpn wTB! of rich-si nieliKl uu auarner n-p!iyr lloat. I Luow 'tii irui.'; lor 1 havo heard, At tone tout iilio wan wiJ, The cjuulrj rouod knew oooe as tiir, Or ho my gmiiJpa aid. JJ'il now he'i withered. l"al and old, llcr voire is rract.-i and -hnl': H. r ircmtiliac habds almost refuse The inamlatM of her will; Her brow is seamed Ly fnrrowa d.p, Her are iiimmi-,1 aud bl.-nr, Aii'l cftoii on iheir silvery friugo There hug a crystal (far. Tor lie lias seen, like Antumn lArin, Her doad aroiiti 1 her full, Ai d folUwi-d lo tha .-hmrh-yard nor nil many a -.imhre jall; Ad1 hark again to earili she ban Uur Juai-cst Ucjjiuei given . Bui. l.-ukiitp up, -lie MiniJvi and fays, ''I'll we thou all in hcavua:'' And as I heu.! ahova ler heal And strike her wintrj hair, Or stoop to kis her brow and chcaks, So si-uined with lines of ciro, I foel lliit m uiy very soul I werabip at her (hriEe, And liny to child of mortal birth, itoiuago almost diviuo! |