The book Dreamings of the Waking Heart : With Other Poems was written by author Swartz, Joel, 1827-1914 Here you can read free online of Dreamings of the Waking Heart : With Other Poems book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Dreamings of the Waking Heart : With Other Poems a good or bad book?
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Or there the candidate for law, His wits have not yet learned to draw The cobweb fibre fine; Or split the hairs which plainly show Which way the cHent's case must go To shift the "thine" to "mine. " Do not our adult bosoms swell, Where e'er we roam where e'er we dwell, Our childhood's life to trace V Does not the sage relax his brow, His faded cheek with gladness glow And soft his care-worn faco. As back he rolls the tide of life Away from manhood's weary strife, To childhood's sunny scenes: Wh...ile memory mirrors all the past. And fi'om the view, with smiles o'er cast, A thousand comforts gleans ? Behold the man of four-score j^ears — ITe scarcely feels, or sees, or hears His life is but a dream; 49 OUR CHILDHOODS HOME. He dozes in liis old arm chair, Without a thought or conscious care — So vacant does he seem. If converse turn on current news, Such matters but his thoughts confuse, He feels on other themes: The names of men, of parties, all. On his oblivious senses fall As if they were but dreams.
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