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Doubt and other things, verse and illustrations . [215] Digitized by Microsoft® Those Days With all the Dancers duly set, We danced some pleading minuetWhich figured well the goings onOf those days and our merry set, That once so merry set.But now with pretty ghosts aloneI dance that pleading minuet. Could I But Know! Careless youth scattered, as if it little matteredHow, or where, or when the golden grain was sown; Had it but known! Closing the weary eyes gives the brain no reposing.It sadly goes on reaping what it has sown. Had it but known! Old Age again sowing but this well knowing, It never will gather the harvest it now sows.Can only murmur to itself, meekly and low, •Could I but know! [216] Digitized by Microsoft®. Uigitizea by Microsoft® An Old Mans Song Time—for a moment hold thy glassSo that Lifes sands no longer pass, Twill be great sport to look them oerAnd then make up the motley score, A mass inchoate as this verse, And like it, might have been much worse. The common sand of Sweet Content I somehow miss, And the rare pearls of Perfect Bliss;The golden grain of Wealth is somewhat rareBut dull green grains of Discontent and Care Are there.And of sparkling diamond grains of pleasure A good measure.But ruby gems of Love and coral beads of Passion I must count in, Mixed with jet black specks of Sin.Yet, to be fair, some pure white grainsOf Truth and Honesty abide, and purple Pride;Nor must I leave out of the calculationSome small, much broken particles of Reformation. Dark are the grains that mark the death of friends.But why trouble borrow? we go ourselves tomorrow.Then comes a lot of dull disgusting stuffWhich taken in the mass must stand for Pain, Repentance, carking Care, and Melancholy, And t