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A YEAR OF LIFE,

THE PRICE OF THE BISHOP,

AND

OTHER POEMS.

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(AUTHOR OF "SONGS FROM THE SUNNY SOUTH," ETC.)

LONDON:

LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.

1883.

280

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This Volume

In slight token of affection and respect

to

Mr. and Mrs. 6. M.

WHEN Sweet weeks swiftly passed with dearest Friends
Cease sudden, as a happy dream they pass,

But not as goes a shadow from a glass,
For, heart-engraved, their memory ever sends
Its stretching arms across the gulf that tends
Twixt all sweet things and life; not so the mass
Of swarming sorrows, all of kin or class

To bitterness with its existence ends;

Life's common-place we approve or disapprove,
Its trials meet us, but in strife and stress
Leave scarce a healed forgotten scar to move
One thought; but there is no forgetfulness
For those loved only as a Boy can love,

For all the happy days and dreams of Gress!

GRESS LODGE, STORNOWAY, N.B.

October, 1881.

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