Elgin High School - Maroon Yearbook (Elgin, IL)

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I is Child of the pure unclouded brow And dreaming eyes of wonder! Though time be Heet, and I and thou Are half a life asunder, Thy loving smile will surely hail The love-gift of a fairy-tale. I have not seen thy sunny face, Nor heard thy silver laughter: No thought of me shall Hnd a place In thy young life's hereafter- Enough that now thou wilt not fail To listen to my fairy-tale. days, were glowing- served to time rowing- memory yet, would say 'forg A tale begun in other When summer suns A simple chime, that The rhythm of our Whose echoes live in Though envious years 5:

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Come, hearken then, ere voice of dread With bitter tidings laden, Shall summon to unwelcome bed A melancholy maiden! We are but older children, dear, Who fret to find our bedtime near. Without, the frost, the blinding snow, The storm-wind's moody madness- Within, the Hrelight's ruddy glow, And childhood's nest of gladness. The magic Words shall hold thee fast: Thou shalt not heed the raving blast. And, though the shadow of a sigh May tremble through the story, For 'happy summer days' gone by, And vanish'd summer glory- It shall not touch, with breath of bale, The pleasance of our fairy-talefl -Lewis Carroll