Emporia State University - Sunflower Yearbook (Emporia, KS)

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'rnen-A-Days. RE they gone-the Thenadays- Can Have they vanished from our gaze For all time? Will not our cry Bring again the days gone by? we not recall the past That has flitted all too fast? Can it be that we are gray?- We were chidren yesterday. Has our childhood passed as soon As themorning turns to noon? As the darkness turns to dawn? Have they left us, are they gone? Thenadays we came and went Here and yonder, well content. Sunshine golden Winged the day Till it iiitted far away. Childhood all too soon has flown, And Still Life And the child to youth has grown. our skies were just as bright, as full of love and light- if e'er carnelsome dark hour, It was but an April shower. Sunshine broke all rifts of haze Ino ur happy Thenadays. Thenadays-how clear we see Things once veiled in mystery. Now we fully understand That the pressure of our hand Could have made some sorrow light, Could have ,madesonie dark day bright. Now we see where we were wrong, Love the friend misjudged so long. Now we see where one kind word A Would have been by angels heard. Though you bring us fond regret, Thenadays, 'we love- you yet. Thenadays-how like a. dream Do those days of childhood seem- Long, bright days of happy hours, Pleasures plucked like fragrant flowers. Days when mother's kiss would heal Every ill that wecould feelg When her smile and her caress Would the deepest wrongs redress. All the sunshine of the place Was the love-light of her face- Deep enshrined it ever stays In our precious Thenadays. V Ah, those happy Thenadaysl- Can We tell in words of praise How forgotten are the pains?- James Whitcomb Rllegfa AfterwMlea. Nothing of the past remains, But the good, the pure, the true- As the' distant mountain View Veils in haze the rocks and scars, Blending any line that mars. Memories of smiles and tears, Of the joys of by-gone years, Guide us, over pleasant ways, Suggested by Back into our Thenadays. -Iva E. Purdum. '-4--