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From: "Nancee Seifert" <>
Subject: THE FUTURE AND THE PAST.
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 22:55:25 -0500

The Chariton Patriot, Chariton, Iowa
Wednesday, December 3, l873

'THE FUTURE AND THE PAST'
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The heart is like a river,
Wherein two Currents flow --
One to the future leading,
One to the Long Ago.
On both the banks are roses,
On both the sun is cast,
But the current which is smoothest
Flows ever to the past.

Upon this ebbing river
Our thoughts like vessels go --
Some to the future sailing;
Some to the Long Ago.
Bringing at their returning,
Relics we dearly prize,
Brought from those distant islands
Bound by youth's sunny skies.

Strange that the past remaineth
Shut in the heart for aye --
Strange we are never willing
To say to the Past good-bye.
The future is a shadow --
A cloud whose golden sheen
Makes every cloud look golden,
That's in the distance seen.

The Past so full of pleasure,
A rainbow bright whose bow
Connects the present moments
With those of Long Ago --
A bridge we oft are crossing,
Passing the friends of old,
With faces fair and youthful,
And hair as bright as gold.

Strange that the gold must vanish
Out of the sunny hair,
Strange that the silver spinneth
Nets for the old to wear,
Strange that the wrinkles trample
Out the young faces bloom,
Life shadows that, in evening,
Over bright pictures come.

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Copied by Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert
June 17, 2003
*I think this is so appropriate in our genealogical search
for ancestors...

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