VIRTUE’S EVERGREEN.
Reading edition
POETRY BY THEODORE A. GOULD.
MUSIC COMPOSED BY THEODORE VON LA HACHE.
The ilied brow, the rosy cheek,
Where beaming smiles of beauty play,
Are transient things, they but beguile,
As April’s bland and fickle smile,
They charm us with their light awhile,
Then
fade, then fade at last away,
They charm us with their light awhile,
Then fade, then fade at last away.
’Tis Virtue’s Virtue’s evergreen.
SECOND VERSE.
They fade at last away! the form
So beautiful in youth’s gay prime,
Must shrivel up—the hair turn grey,
The eye abate its lustrous ray,
The smooth and pearly teeth decay,
Beneath the touch of Time.
THIRD VERSE.
Beneath the touch of Time! a price
There is he cannot touch, I ween;
It bloometh always fair and bright
Through springs warm day or winter’s night,
A plant his hand can never blight;
’Tis Virtue’s Evergreen,
Transcriber’s Notes:
Archaic spellings and hyphenation have been retained as well as some spellings peculiar to Graham’s. Punctuation has been corrected without note. Other errors have been corrected as noted below. For illustrations, some caption text may be missing or incomplete due to condition of the originals used for preparation of the ebook.
page 278, put into envelops with ==> put into envelopes with
page 279, Nous verrons, se que ==> Nous verrons, ce que
page 282, crop of whispers. ==> crop of whiskers.
page 291, most beautiful, all of the ==> most beautiful of all, the
page 291, many claim upon his ==> many claims upon his
page 292, drowned in the privater, ==> drowned in the privateer,
page 299, Orthrography, Etymology and ==> Orthography, Etymology and
page 306, of our benificent Father ==> of our beneficent Father
page 306, interrogatories to day pass ==> interrogatories to-day pass
page 307, widow from Manheim ==> widow from Mannheim
page 317, in all statutary Christendom ==> in all statutory Christendom
page 317, an apopthegm by one of ==> an apophthegm by one of
page 326, grande e beau physique ==> grande et beau physique
page 332, of his scimiter; ==> of his scimitar;
page 333, solid nonpariel, like ==> solid nonpareil, like
page 335, in images are sugguested ==> in images are suggested