Brine, Mary D. / 2008-07-23 00:00:00
EBOOK GRANDMA'S MEMORIES ***
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GRANDMA'S MEMORIES
BY MARY D. BRINE
_Author of "Grandma's Attic Treasures_"
DEDICATED TO THOSE
DEAR ONES WHOSE FACES ARE TURNED
TOWARD THE SUNSET
_ILLUSTRATED_
1888.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
Frontispiece _Walter Pag_
"Only a lullaby, gentle and low"
"Grandma's a maiden"
'lo Grandma's girl-life comes some woe"
"The young head is lain"
"Grandma now is a bride"
"On the sunny young head"
"Soft and low is the little one's breath"
"Learns that sweet lesson so old and so new"
"As he looks in my face"
"'Mid the farewells that are merry, yet sad"
"On Grandma's thin cheek falls a kiss"
"Draws near the old chair, and sits close at her side"
"The gift of a grandchild"
Headpiece--"Evening and the Bells" _A. W. Parsm_
Head and Tailpiece--Vignettes _R A. Bell_
GRANDMA'S MEMORIES.
[Illustration]
GRANDMA'S MEMORIES.
The mantle of evening is veiling the sky,
And over the landscape its soft shadows lie;
The old year is passing, a new year will reign,
Ere earth shall awaken to day-dawn again.
Dear Grandma has folded her knitting away,
And muses alone at the close of the day;
While the old clock ticks solemnly off, one by one,
The moments yet left to the year almost done.
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