Excerpt from Poem

We meet to part! As when some timid bride,
Lingers her parents' long loved forms beside,
Smiles through her tears - half sorrowful, half gay,
Reluctant to be gone, yet loth to stay,
With heart alternate filled with hopes and fears,
Recalls the past, thinks of the dawning years, -
The laughing joys that circled round her home,
The scenes she leaves, the untried scenes to come,
So we, ere wandering from these quiet bowers,
Where Ease and Science strewed our path with flowers,
Pause to survey the moments here that flew,
And pierce that life now opening on our view.

In Fancy's glass a shadowy realm extends,
Where cloud with cloud in shifting drapery blends,
Some dim with mystery, indistinct of form,
Or dark, portentous of the boding storm,
Some bathed in all the iris hues and dyes
Which summer sunsets throw o'er southern skies,
And here and there, their parting folds reveal
Glimpses of gorgeous scenes they half conceal.
It is the Dream-land of the Future, where
Bright phantoms dancing paint the crimson air!
Of rosy joys a smiling train appears,
And scatter wreaths along the opening years.
The cherub Loves there wave their purple wings,
Her golden glories Fortune round her flings,
Ambition dazzles with the crown of state,

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