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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE OLD MAN DREAMS. 0 for one hour of youthful joy Give back my twentieth spring 1 'd rather laugh a bright-haired boy Than reign a gray-beard kingl Off with the wrinkled spoils of agel Away with learning's crownl Tear out life's wisdom-written page, And dash its trophies down One moment let my life-blood stream From boyhood's fount of flame Give me one giddy, reeling dream Of life all love and fame ? My listening angel heard the prayer, And calmly smiling, said, If I but touch thy silvered hah-, Thy hasty wish hath sped. But is there nothing in thy track To bid thee fondly stay, While the swift seasons hurry back To find the wished-for day? Ah, truest soul of womankind Without thee, what were life? One bliss I cannot leave behind: I '1l take ? my ? precious ? wife ? The angel took a sapphire pen And wrote in rainbow dew, The man would be a boy again, And be a husband too And is there nothing yet unsaid Before the change appears ? chapter{{Section 4Remember, all their gifts have fled With those dissolving years Why, yes; for memory would recall My fond paternal joys; I could not bear to leave them all; I '1l take ? my ? girl ? and ? boys The smiling angel dropped his pen, ? Why this will never do; The man would be a boy again, And be a father too' And so I laughed, ? my laughter woke The household with its noise, ? And wrote my dream, when morning broke To please the gray-haired boys. I am so well pleased with my boarding-house that I intend to remain there, perhaps for years. Of course I shall have a great many conversations to report, and they will necessarily be of different tone and on different subjects. The talks are like the breakfasts, ?sometimes dipped ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217148245 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217148247 |
| Weight | 0.76 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.52 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 230 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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