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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: /ID. M. Ob. IN HOPE 1 Could I recall each hope or transient joy That fired my wayward fancy when a boy, From infancy's soft age to manhood's prime, Each happier moment of my fleeting time ; Could I divest them of each burning tear For blighted hopes and friends I held so dear, Of every anxious thought and gnawing pain, And had the power to live them o'er again ; Without a sigh, I'd give them all away To live one little hour of yesterday — A few fond moments — ah ! a very few, The happiest far my bosom ever knew ; 'Tvas when my trembling fingers fondly pressed The yielding hand of her I love the best, As, side by side, we knelt before the throne Of God — for then I felt myself alone With heaven and her, and as I sighed Amen I blessed my stars I had not loved in vain. Written in tbe Hlbum of a loung WITH WHOM THE AUTHOR HAD BEEN AT SCHOOL. At your request I lift my faltering quill, Although it goes by half against my will, A page or two of this fair book to stain, Because I know 'tis foolish—more, 'tis vain— For such a dunce in poetry as I With such a tempting offer to comply ; But framed by nature pliable and soft, My kind obliging temper very oft Runs counter to my slender common-sense : So here am I, just going to commence— " Don't you remember ? (if you don't I do) When I was at the school, and so were you; I was your senior, some few years or so— We will not say how long it is ago— When learning lessons was our greatest pain, And books we idly thought were made in vain; With eager joy we 'd throw the books away To spend an hour or two in childish play, Then your ambition was not to be dux, But to excel your compeers at the chucks ; And I my precious time would misemploy, For arithmetic draw " the walls of Troy," And think my Greek and Latin nought at all To beat...