SWEET DAY OF DAYS.
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On the moss-grown bridge I stand, Where you gave me once your hand, Where a story, new, yet old, Once without a word was told. Still the daylight slowly dies, Ebbing from the tender skies; Still the river creeps along, Crooning yet its wistful song. Day of days, sweet day of days, Years their shadows round us raise; Happy they who, looking on, Still remember days agone! Ah! of all sweet days that day, Gone from sight and reach away, Even as this flower I throw Down the old gray stream will go. Nay—it lingers—prisoned lies, Where the swaying willows rise, Out of reach, love, like sweet days Lingering yet in memory’s gaze! Day of days, sweet day of days, Years their shadows round us raise; Happy they who, looking on, Still remember days agone! G. Clifton Bingham.
Volume III. of the Fifth Series of Chambers’s Journal is now completed, price Nine Shillings.
A Title-page and Index, price One Penny, have been prepared, and may be ordered through any bookseller.
An elegant cloth case for binding the whole of the numbers for 1886 is also ready.
Back numbers to complete sets may at all times be had.
The First Monthly Part of the New Volume will contain the opening Chapters of an original Novel, entitled: RICHARD CABLE THE LIGHTSHIPMAN By the Author of ‘Mehalah,’ ‘John Herring,’ ‘Court Royal,’ etc.
Also an interesting Novelette, entitled: TOLD BY TWO By T. W. SPEIGHT END OF THE THIRD VOLUME. Printed and Published by W. and R. Chambers, 47 Paternoster Row, London, and 339 High Street, Edinburgh. All Rights Reserved.
[Transcriber’s note—the following changes have been made to this text.
Page 818: guaze to gauze—“wire-gauze”.
Page 831: shale oil-works to shale-oil works—“shale-oil works”.]