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The Drama Of Life

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Parent Issue
Day
17
Month
October
Year
1888
Copyright
Public Domain
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In a eradle warm and cozy, ¦Tusl a baby, soft aud rosy- Jnst a baby, qulet lylng, Sleepiug, smlling, waking, crylng. Dlinpling. klssinir, coolng, erowlng. All a baby's HWeelnessshowlng. Orown lo hoyliood. laughlng. playlng, lu the lii-lils anü woods a-straylng; ín tlie scliool-room,Joklng, turnlng All tlilngs lnto fun, yet learnlug; Roning.boatinK, raclng, Every kind of frollo cbaslQK. Boyhood grown to youth, he measureB lAíe by very Uill'ereut treasurex; Fond offllrtlng, dancing, slnglng, Love-liku Ín Joy upiprlnglug; still Por some coy beauty dylng, Woutag, diessiug, rhjmlng, slgblng. Tlll at lenelh hls piaytime over. Thuuglit and labor please the rover; JSrlriK hirn manhood's grave nmbltlon, DisuppoiDtmeut and frultloD; Wlfo und chlldren, earnest strlvlng, Till he sees oíd age nrrlvlug. And slts we'l contented waltiug, Better lile antlc patiug; Stlll by earthly love Riirrounded, Full oí liope Ín irue falth fouuded ; Then sorae mom, "the secret token," And the sllver cord Is brokcu; And hls loved ones Roftly weeplug, Whispvr, "He is safely sleeping, Oive i:ini to the Falher's keepmi; 1 '

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Ann Arbor Courier
Old News