LIFE'S CHANGES.
The sunlight shimmers on all below,The violets breathe and the roses blow,Bringing the beautiful long-ago Back to my heart again.
Where the lilies grew in the deepest shade,And even the drooping rose-leaves madeA fragrant path where the angels strayed To touch my soul with light.
I gayly sang my childish lays,And blither still were my girlish days,When friends stood by to smile and praise Each word and deed of mine.
While Fortune from her chalice fairFlung golden showers on the air—And I was glad, for I thought despair To me could never come.
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