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Show FLOATSAM OF LIFE. (Exchange.) ' N The flash of a vanished face shines out Like a ship's light far at sea; Spars from a broken wreck float back The dreams of Used-to-be. The sunken cave of a rock-bound shore Hides the face of Hope, sea-wet; And the tangled wecfjs ,come swirling by With the corpse of dead Regret. And out, far out on the sounding deep, Red Wrong and unburied Care The skeleton forms of dear dead things Which but yesterday were fair. The smiles that died ere they scarce were born. And the unshed, hopeless tears Go drifting, drifting on with the tide The flotsam of the years. |