. Chips, sporting & otherwise : in verse & prose. Horses; Fox hunting. 194 Eoofeing ?3acfe. To run on farther with the merry throng We'd led till then at pace too good to last; Find that our voice jars in their joyous song, And that our noonday is already past. *' Redeem the wasted hours," the Preacher cries ; *' Blot out their mem'ry," louder yells Despair; And man, who sought not life, crawls on and dies, Crush'd down as camel by the last (grey) hair. LOOKING OOKING back ! yes, it is more than sad looking back through the misty past, Dim with the fogsof folly,and wor
. Chips, sporting & otherwise : in verse & prose. Horses; Fox hunting. 194 Eoofeing ?3acfe. To run on farther with the merry throng We'd led till then at pace too good to last; Find that our voice jars in their joyous song, And that our noonday is already past. *' Redeem the wasted hours," the Preacher cries ; *' Blot out their mem'ry," louder yells Despair; And man, who sought not life, crawls on and dies, Crush'd down as camel by the last (grey) hair. LOOKING OOKING back ! yes, it is more than sad looking back through the misty past, Dim with the fogsof folly,and worse—bright with pleasures too sweet to last; Here resolutions good were made—you may note the spot by the sunny ray, Well-nigh eclips'd by the darker blot, which denotes how soon they, alas ! gave way. Here on Life's map, and there, we trace a moisten'd spot from a heart-felt tear; Sacred tokens, you each efface some lov'd one's name held, alas ! so dear ;. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Wedge, F. L. W. Coventry : W. W. Curtis ; London : Hamilton, Adams
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