Time & Brevity
Boyhood
From A New Library of Poetry and Song, ed. William Cullen Bryant (1877)
Time & Brevity
Ah, then, how sweetly closed those crowded days!
The minutes parting one by one like rays
That fade upon a summer's eve.
But O, what charm or magic numbers
Can give me back the gentle slumbers
Those weary, happy days did leave?
When by my bed I saw my mother kneel,
And with her blessing took her nightly kiss;
Whatever Time destroys, he cannot this; —
E'en now that nameless kiss I feel.
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