The imperial highway : or, the road to fortune and happiness ; with biographies of self-made men, their business traits, qualities and habits . e browWhose look is borrowd of the skies That listen to her nightly prayer? Oh! when the hour to meet again Creeps on—and, speeding oer the sea,My heart takes up its lengthend chain, And, link by link, draws nearer thee—When land is haild, and, from the shore Comes off the blessed breath of home,With fragrance from my mothers door Of flowers forgotten when I come—When port is gaind, and slowly now The old familiar paths are passd,And entering—unconscio
The imperial highway : or, the road to fortune and happiness ; with biographies of self-made men, their business traits, qualities and habits . e browWhose look is borrowd of the skies That listen to her nightly prayer? Oh! when the hour to meet again Creeps on—and, speeding oer the sea,My heart takes up its lengthend chain, And, link by link, draws nearer thee—When land is haild, and, from the shore Comes off the blessed breath of home,With fragrance from my mothers door Of flowers forgotten when I come—When port is gaind, and slowly now The old familiar paths are passd,And entering—unconscious how— I gaze upon thy face at last,And run to thee all faint and weak, 522 MY BIRTHDAY. And feel thy tears upon my cheek— Oh! if my heart break not with joy,The light of heaven will fairer seem, And I shall grow once more a boy;And, mother! twill be like a dream That we were parted thus for years;And once that we have dried our tears, How will the days seem long and brightTo meet thee always with the morn, And hear thy blessing every night—Thy dearest, thy first born!— And be no more, as now, in a strange land,forlorn ?. THE FAMILY. 523 THE FAMILY, At length his humble cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree;Th expectant wee-things, toddlin, stacher through, To meet their dad, wi flichterin noise and wee bit ingle, blinkin bonnily, His clean hearthstane, his thrifty wifies smile,The lisping infant prattling on his knee, Does a his weary, caiking cares beguile, An makes him quite forget his labor an his toil. —Burns. [HE family is the oldest and most valuableinstitution on earth. In the Garden ofEden it had its origin, and its founder was%||py no less a being than God Himself, the•^ Author of life, and the Creator of theworld. In the beginning God made the first pairmale and female, put them together in a commonhome, and commanded them to be fruitful and multi-ply. And so the world was gradually filled by theincrease of children an
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