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Show vi"""!7 "MHJ Mthes a solemn, solemn Alae ' X.-' ije,- Bet back the clock, dear wife! j" And weep with m. We"v thrown w7 J.- A preclou hour of life. I B "And eh of all thli warmlnc throne I 1 Haa tosaed hla hour away. IM W atand a hundred million atront jjj And mourn our loaa today. , iJLj "A hundrad million precloua houra! lit, CeT I tm one-ln a mass: SVj JJ i . Why, flaured rouahly, by the Powers! X It make four million day. - Tm weak at flcurea, that I know, 1 But eurely H appears, yyr Four million daya yield, figured low, A good tea- thouaand year. T? "Ten thouaand yeara we've thrown away By eeltlnc back tha clock. r"7 Ten thouaand yeara! It turna ma (ray I rl 11 five one'a aoul a ahock. JT, "Why, that, perhapa. la twice the apan fL o our recorded race. 'f?M Twice the hlatorlo yeara of man VrJ ' Of which we have a trace. flc W'1 l ' Olve It to me, thla apace of time, Thla waate beyond all prlcel i ril make an Rden more aubllme f- . Than Adam'a Paradlae. j "No Herculee ahall be aa atronf ! 1 ijlt 9 No Aristotle wlaerl I" ft, 3 I'll make all life one grand, aweet eons; A H iTvi'i ril clvlllae the kalaerl " t : ji 'I dearly love to apeculata P fc" 4i n "natter of thla aort. it t 'itl ut wlvM ' wlvea, and here my male A , tjl! . ,--- JUroM 'n. and tut eae ahorti - Irj BvJif "If all men make the aame to-do, llt.7 , -or aay 'to-do-less" rather, 'fill thouaand yeara are gone, alnca you &"a5jkJ Began your allly blather!" IT vl Now by the soda of Greece and Rome a LV Y' -B And angela of the aklea! rfit """""l Thafa all the help I get at home, I Veas4 When I philosophise. l!-r' (copyright. 11, N. E. A.) |