Rhymes (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Rhymes<br><br>Whoso looks on life but sees<br>Life is full of cadences<br>If to-day we feel a sorrow,<br>And a gladness on the morrow,<br>We are not to think it plain<br>Sorrow will not come again;<br>Or that gladness will endure<br>All our grievances to cure:<br>Soon or later each returns,<br>Bearing roses - funeral urns.<br><br>Thus with cadence come and go<br>All our moods of joy and woe.<br><br>Here, rehearsing certain fancies,<br>Born of varied circumstances,<br>Linking life's strong, youthful day<br>With years that see the hair turn gray<br>Cadences of hope and fear,<br>Real or hollow, dark or clear,<br>From divers places, divers climes -<br>I have shaped them into Rhymes.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.