Classic Poem

I

The sunset beams that backward flow
Illumine with their golden glow
Life's glim'ring plain,
And we, as side by side we wend,
Look to the Past, where darkly blend
Shadows of hopes and dreams, dear friend,
Pleasure and pain.

II

But there's no darkness on the track
Where we have journey'd! Looking back
O'er many a year,
By loving Fancy led, I deem
I still can see the roses gleam
And, sweet by many a murm'ring stream,
The violets peer.

III

So be it, till the light shall fail,
And, as we wander down the vale,
Our fate be blest,
By fond affection holding fast,
Only to think of pleasures past
With grateful hearts, and so, at last,
Find peace and rest.