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Nous Avons Change Tout Cela!
NOUS AVONS CHANGE TOUT CELA !
How well I temember'd other limes , And idle hopes and fears , When I met an ancient flame of mine , I had not seen for years ; And tho' in another day and scene , AVe met all full of glee , I had lost for long all sight of her , And she had forgotten me !
But I knew that face at once again , And the gleam of that waving hair , And the fondly look , and the winning smile , And the presence soft and fair ; Yes , it seemed to be but yesterday , But yesterday in truth , Since we two consorted together , In the hours of festive youth .
Well , time has changes for us all , It severs friends and hearts , It sends us all in different ways , To play oar separate parts , And many once link'd in deep affection , And many a fastest friend , Ne ' er meet again in this noisy life , As onwards their way they wend .
How many have loitered in " Auld lang syne , " By some refreshing shore , Whose sand-castles the sea has wash'd away , Poor builders , for evermore ; How many have laughed in frolic fun , Beneath those stately trees , Or in some pleasant canter on the turf , Or before a favouring breeze !
How many have known each other well , In the friendship of joyous days , AVho've met no more on tbis earth of ours , In their widely severed ways ; AA ho have hardly heard of the welcome name , Or looked upon that face , Which shone for them as a meteor star , In old days of glowing grace !
But let us not complain of change , Tho' the years with our friends depart , It cannot ever take from the true , The sympathies of the heart ; It cannot shut out a vision Of sweet faces and loving eyes , It cannot deprive us of memory's charm , Tho' it bring us weary sighs .
No , years may fade , and scenes may change , And friends may pass away , But the heart it ever will wander hack To friendship ' s ancient day ; Oh , happy law of love sublime , AVhich never can disunite ; Our hopes and fears , and cares and dreams , Have memories fair and bright . C __ ELBB 8 .
Charles Dickens—A Lecture.
CHARLES DICKENS—A LECTURE .
BY BRO . EMKA HOLMES . ( Continued from p . 113 . ) Delivered at the Working Mens' College Ipswich , President , the Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer , Sir Fitzroy Kelly .
LOED JOHN HEEVEY , IN THE CHAIH . It had been said that Mr . Seymour had something to do Avith the composition of this Avork ( " Piclcwick " ) , Avhich Dickens , however , distmctly denies . The great novelist himself thus writeswith reference
, to the curious name he assumed , and the origin of Avhich has been the subject of so much controversy : — "Boz , my signature in the Morning Chronicle , in the Old Monthly magazine appended to the monthly coA'er of this
book , and retained long afterwards , Avas the nick-name of a pet child , a younger brother , ivliom I had dubbed Moses in honour of the Vicar of Wakefield , Avhich , being facetiously pronounced through the nose , became Boses , and , being shortened , became Boz . Boz Avas a very familiar household Avord to me long before I Avas
an author , and so I came to adopt it . " Touching Stiggins , Dickens observes in his preface : — " Lest there should be any lvell-intentioned persons ivho do not perceive the difference—as some such Avould not Avhen ' Old Mortality' Avas neivly
published—between religion and the cant of religion , piety and the pretence of piety , a humble reverence for the great truths of Scripture and an audacious and offensive obtrusion of its letter , and not its spirit , in the commonest discussions and meanest
affairs of life , to the extraordinary confusion of ignorant minds , let them understand that it is always the latter , and never the former , ivhieh is satirised here . Further , that the latter is here satirised as being , according to all experience , inconsistent _ yith the former—impossible of union Avith it , and one of the most evil and mischievous falsehoods existent in
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Nous Avons Change Tout Cela!
NOUS AVONS CHANGE TOUT CELA !
How well I temember'd other limes , And idle hopes and fears , When I met an ancient flame of mine , I had not seen for years ; And tho' in another day and scene , AVe met all full of glee , I had lost for long all sight of her , And she had forgotten me !
But I knew that face at once again , And the gleam of that waving hair , And the fondly look , and the winning smile , And the presence soft and fair ; Yes , it seemed to be but yesterday , But yesterday in truth , Since we two consorted together , In the hours of festive youth .
Well , time has changes for us all , It severs friends and hearts , It sends us all in different ways , To play oar separate parts , And many once link'd in deep affection , And many a fastest friend , Ne ' er meet again in this noisy life , As onwards their way they wend .
How many have loitered in " Auld lang syne , " By some refreshing shore , Whose sand-castles the sea has wash'd away , Poor builders , for evermore ; How many have laughed in frolic fun , Beneath those stately trees , Or in some pleasant canter on the turf , Or before a favouring breeze !
How many have known each other well , In the friendship of joyous days , AVho've met no more on tbis earth of ours , In their widely severed ways ; AA ho have hardly heard of the welcome name , Or looked upon that face , Which shone for them as a meteor star , In old days of glowing grace !
But let us not complain of change , Tho' the years with our friends depart , It cannot ever take from the true , The sympathies of the heart ; It cannot shut out a vision Of sweet faces and loving eyes , It cannot deprive us of memory's charm , Tho' it bring us weary sighs .
No , years may fade , and scenes may change , And friends may pass away , But the heart it ever will wander hack To friendship ' s ancient day ; Oh , happy law of love sublime , AVhich never can disunite ; Our hopes and fears , and cares and dreams , Have memories fair and bright . C __ ELBB 8 .
Charles Dickens—A Lecture.
CHARLES DICKENS—A LECTURE .
BY BRO . EMKA HOLMES . ( Continued from p . 113 . ) Delivered at the Working Mens' College Ipswich , President , the Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer , Sir Fitzroy Kelly .
LOED JOHN HEEVEY , IN THE CHAIH . It had been said that Mr . Seymour had something to do Avith the composition of this Avork ( " Piclcwick " ) , Avhich Dickens , however , distmctly denies . The great novelist himself thus writeswith reference
, to the curious name he assumed , and the origin of Avhich has been the subject of so much controversy : — "Boz , my signature in the Morning Chronicle , in the Old Monthly magazine appended to the monthly coA'er of this
book , and retained long afterwards , Avas the nick-name of a pet child , a younger brother , ivliom I had dubbed Moses in honour of the Vicar of Wakefield , Avhich , being facetiously pronounced through the nose , became Boses , and , being shortened , became Boz . Boz Avas a very familiar household Avord to me long before I Avas
an author , and so I came to adopt it . " Touching Stiggins , Dickens observes in his preface : — " Lest there should be any lvell-intentioned persons ivho do not perceive the difference—as some such Avould not Avhen ' Old Mortality' Avas neivly
published—between religion and the cant of religion , piety and the pretence of piety , a humble reverence for the great truths of Scripture and an audacious and offensive obtrusion of its letter , and not its spirit , in the commonest discussions and meanest
affairs of life , to the extraordinary confusion of ignorant minds , let them understand that it is always the latter , and never the former , ivhieh is satirised here . Further , that the latter is here satirised as being , according to all experience , inconsistent _ yith the former—impossible of union Avith it , and one of the most evil and mischievous falsehoods existent in