THISTLEDOWN.

Clutha Leader, Volume II, Issue 65, 7 October 1875, Page 7

THISTLEDOWN.

(An English Bural Custom.) Long ago, a little girl, „>,., Smooth of cheek and dark of curl, Like my daughter's nearly,— I gather'd for my bridal bed Many a hoary thistle-head Before the flying tufts were shed, And saved then! up; so dearly/! ■'- ■ O the happy day? and dreams? Endless Present— lit with gleams * . Of a wondrous Future;! , „-« Day, and week, and month, and year j Glide. — and what you: know,- myfdearS? Ani what know. I A Q little sphere „ , , Of tfvery mortal creature'! '~'~ '"'' x • Life is pleasure, life ia pain, II Passing, notto^come^again, Blackest hour and Brightest, - 'lima takes all things/all iriusfcgb' j.AlH Byegones vanish-risi it so ? Come and lost for ever ?— No ; --'Not-tlie least and slightest. : '*> In Age- we laugh at dreams of >Ifduthyrr Are Age's dreams mpre like, the truth ? A I And what feiife but^iitig-? r^AT<" The worldriß;Bqmetoing,)ngnej can doubt, But no one finds its secrets out. -• To childhood, and-to souls dovout, ..j^' , AComes the best revealing. AAQiy a^heartare^J^'myfehild;' s^'-^ -^ i GatTiering,do;wrix;ihißfcles wild } Careaiioft Fifths oppress theeA ;. 7 AA7 Gathering .upAfofejoy^fpr moati, 7, -"'7 '.-'A A^hen^fohe^antjf mnsf tbo.^aee flo^aA A' Tne bed that yotlmttist lie upon. ?■'&.■s ,:-y ■ •....-... --; : 'z-.-'f!'<ir' j i's^i>ii r/ i^p .-■ - v.'-*' ■ -- y-i'-.y >v " ' "'• A- ". ' -• " ty^ 'y'y^^^MooSs6^ "S •" ' J*J J~'J~. -A.- .' -'"" -"" ' AA ivv-A*" 3 ,^*^^^^