WE WERE BOYS TOGETHER.
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BY GEORGE P. MORRIS.
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We were boys together,
And never can forget,
The school-house on the heather,
In childhood where we met:
Nor the green home to memory dear,
Its sorrows or its joys,
Which called the transient smile or tear,
When you and I were boys.
We were youths together,
And castles built in air!
Your heart was like a feather,
While mine was dash’d with care!
To you came wealth with manhood’s prime,
To me it brought alloys
Ne’er dreamed of in the primrose time
When you and I were boys.
We’re old men together—
The friends we loved of yore,
Like leaves of autumn weather,
Are gone for evermore!—
How blest to age the impulse given,
The hope time ne’er destroys,
Which led our thoughts from earth to heaven,
When you and I were boys.