Show V M A to ny ay ced oed oln latez lates in ill west f e a M atme wn jal gal y irgy irey lr long gy years ha have rive live elapsed bow cowand and changes nave have been since my lovely and dear native land I 1 have seen T ie place where a school 01 0 1 sprightly and gayr avith kindred and comrades ive joined anthe play is where each for manfully it strove at t wallace r schoolhouse school house in the shade shado or the grove V 11 1 T eln lere friendships 1 1 ships were formed which have never grown cold enough widely fideli were parted and all growing old I 1 think of 61 my comrades who then were vere i but bat small 1 and oft times ties I 1 wonder neww now where here are they all all parted panted by prairie by mountain and wave nl ind some are laid low in the eold cold silent grave I 1 think of our dooryard door yard the willow and pine and the trees on the banks of the tile old brandywine on which though now I 1 defaced de maced faced might ie lae found some borne marks of our mamegon na meson the trees stand standing ipg round i I 1 think of those places with feelings untold rendered nen ren dered sacred and dear by my schoolmates of old oid 0 fd I 1 think of the hills bills of west nantmeal Nant meal the tile ground over which I 1 have hunted bunted where the tile pheasants abound and where the young rabbits so cunningly play pia pla aad kad skip ahr ugh the the lawn at the close of the ay lay I 1 I 1 As winter draws on iu 16 the dallof failor the year the thle yell yeli of the hound houna yet seems fresh fiech in my ear acdwell and well weil t 0 Q j min mind when my weeks work was done 1 As homeward returning at nighttime night time alone when nature was wa s hushed all oil dark lonely and sull suli ilow how hect were ahe notes of the lone whip toor poor will wili 1 in silence sn encel ponder could mouin mourn mourn ger oer ille the scenes scenes that are pas past never more to return like s of night at the dawning dawni g of day theses pleasures files rs lafill anil anul scenes have all fleetia fleeted dway away away orl oft then dt dearest friends let our prospects allure p in I 1 iture to pleasures more lasting and sure net let us look to the gospel of jesus jes us sublime t for pleasures Ures and blessings that flee not with time t tien vien de deare r comrades I 1 I 1 pry fry in my song onia s that the t e old gospel gosiel net I 1 may yet sweep you a alonz along I 1 0 ng I 1 n the tho kingdom of jesus jesu PY au have a share god bless you foreve nand cand aye esmy is my prayer G PL S L city SAML MALIN malim |