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- LASTING BEAUTY.You say ‘‘we’re growing old/’ love, and fan* j cy you ran trace j 1A line that’s half a wrinkle, where a dimple j 5 cmce had pi nee , j jYou stand before the mirror and toss your I 1tressesoer, j1And fancy they are losing the luster that I ‘they wore, j \Anti say, “Ah, surely, dearest, if truth must ave be »ojd,Both vou and L are daily and hourly growing old.” | jjfI smile, because the roses still burn upon j t vnur cheek, j 3And youth fill grac* ami vigor in ail your 1 movements speak ;Yet still a tinge of sadness creeps over .me unaware, « 1For youthful years are pleasant, and youth- j ifill hopes are fair, ; JAnd fain our feet would tarry where the ’ lt;Ian**’* io£T streamlets flow. j i• O ^ tAnd die rush and sparkle ot the summer’s i 1fervid glow.« 7But the ere will lose its brightness, the j 1 cheek its ruddy glow, ;The warv midnight tresses be blanched to j (wintry snow; • IfThe st«*p will lose its lightness, the voice\its ringing tone. , iAnd the arm its dauntless daring, when the 1 i sinnmer da vs are jfone : i•- O • ' •But little vrili it matter to either I or you, i If the soul still keeps its freshness, the heart ; ( be warm and true. ;If underneath the surface sweet streams go .rippling by. fWhat matter if dead roses among the sedges j * lie IIf the years have gathered fragance, if rarer sweets distil,If in the faded cusket fresh flowers are jblooming still, iIf the harvest days are gulden, why need ;we sadly sigh, !That the changeful skies of seed time’ go :swiftly speeding by, |0 friend, with whom i’ve gathered the first \ swee1 flowers of May, jAnd plucked the opening roses of life’s se rener day,Learn with me this sweet lesson, no blightof space or time Can mar the royal beauty that lives in deeds sublime !And fairer far than blushes o’er stainless j biow of snow, IAre the tender flowers of feeling, which in ! the bosom glow.
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Mexican Times
Mexico, New Mexico, US
Wed, Feb 20, 1867
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