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Show Streets of ByeandBye u ... y O, shun ths spot, my jouthful friends, I urge you to beware) Beguiling Is ths plttsant way, and softly soft-ly breathes the air Yet none have ever patted to scenes ennobling, en-nobling, great and high, Who onre tiessn ta llnstr In ths ttreet ot Uy-onU-bye How varied are the linages nrtilng to my sight. Of thoie who wished to shun the. wrong, who loved and prlie.l the right! Yet from the tllken bonds of sloth they vainly strove to ny, Which ui-ld tliem gently prisoned In the street ot llyand-li) e A youth nsplred to climb the height of Learning's lofrr hill; What dimmed hit bright Intelligence? what quelled hit earnest wlllr Why did the ohjcot or his quett still mork hit wistful eyoT Too long, alas! lie ta.rwtf In the street of lly-and.be. "My projects thrive," the merchant said) '-Then doubled It ray ttore How fri-ely than my ready gold be showered show-ered among the poor!" stt grew hit wealth, yet strove he not the mournor tear to dry; Us never Journeyed onward from ths ttreet ot ll-andbyel "Korglve thy erring brother, he has wept and suffered ions!" I said to one, who answered "Hs hath done me grletoue wrong; Yet will I seek my brother, and forctvs him ere I dle1 Alaat Death shortly found him tn the ttreet of lly-snd-byel The wearied wordllng masts upon lost and wasted days, lteeolved to turn hereafter from the error er-ror of lilt wnyi. To lift hla groveling thought! from earth, and nx them on the iky; Why does lie linger fondly tn the street ot lly-and-byT Then shun the spot, my youthful friends; work on while Jfl you may; Let not old age oertake you as you alnthfully delay, Lest you should gtte around you, and dltroter with a tlgh. You hate reached the huute of "Never" by the ilrwt of Uy-and-byel" -Mrs Abdy. |