Excerpt from The City of Plague: And Other Poems

My Boyhood's Pride!

Companion of youthful glee!
While memory dwells mid scenes of yore,
My heart goes back to thee,
And youthful hours, when innocence
Ruled every thought and word,
Come to my heart and make it beat,
As when in youth it stirred
In throbbing answer to the tones
Of Friendship, Love and Truth,
Oh, happy hours! oh, joyous scenes!
Oh, grand, immortal youth!
Y ar after year may come and go,
As wave on wave doth swell.
But memory like an undertow,
Brings back youths scenes with brighter glow,
Those scenes we love so well.
The Sea of Life, like any sea
By storm is often tossed,

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