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YOUTH RENEWED.
And from the brows of both their boys The childish curls are brushed away,As strong in manly pride they stand— These two, just twenty-one to-day.Their mothers dwell together now, In all their olden love and truth;They watch their grown-up boys renew The friendship of their early youth.
God bless these honest-hearted boys, And make them worthy of the loveThat clings about their lives to-day, Like sunbeams from the world above.God speed them in the path of life, Whose journey they have but begun;May all its coming years be bright As this that greets the twenty-one.
