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Show ORAiVD.UOTIIER CiKEV. Grnrt'I mother Grey liy the window siit, And looked nt llio scttitiir sun, And vau-hed Hie cows as I hey slowly came From tho pasture oiip Ly oiks And back SRiiin to the "Ion r tigu," Hit memory traveled fust, "While the dim eyes closed ns .she lived ngaiii 'ilid scones of Hie lmppy past. "Let mfi see," sho murniured; "ah! yes, 1 know; It was there by Ihu pasture gate That Iiobin, with bid milkiDg-pnil and s'-ool, For my cominc used to wait. It was just a week of our wedding-day '1 hat ho full so siek and died; And I laid my heart in thu gravo with him, And lovud none other beiide. "Hut ah! it wag for my father's ,-ake Tliat 1 wedded farmer Groy, And we've both been tender ai'd true tzd kind As Ibe years hnvo slipped away, But I wonder much when the hour comes That my soil bo tailed above, Shall I, as the wife of farmer Grey, tieek ItobiD, my only love?" And the Kim went down' in the gloiioun west, And tho cows crime safety home, A- Grandmother Grey by tho window sal, "While her thoughts seemed yet to roam, litit the angels came for her waiting soul While the twilight shadows fell. And Grandmother Grev, the fnrlnor'a wif.t, With Kobin 1ms gone to dwell. |