From Graha~s's Magazine.
WE ARB GROWlNG 0LD.
{"newspaper_name": "Iowa territorial gazette and advertiser.", "edition": "01", "page": "p1", "byline": ""}
{"character_count": 1747, "word_count": 342, "ccnet_language_score": [0.9369999766349792], "ccnet_perplexity": [1917.5999755859375], "fasttext_language": ["en"]}
We are growing old-how the thought will rise
when glance is backward cast
On some long-remembered spot that lies
In the silence of the past.
1t may be the shrine Of our early vows,
Or the tomb Of early tears; 3s5sl#.
But it seems like far. off isle to US,
In the stormy seas Of years.
OH wide and wild are the waves that part


Our steps from its greenness now,
And we miss the Joy of many heart,
And the light Of many brow;
Fof deep Der many stately bark ~, .t r-
Have the whelming pillows rolled
That steered with us from that early mark
On, friends! we are growing old!
Old in the dimness Of the dust 45a.
OF our daily tolls and cares
Old in the wrecks Of love and trust
winch our burthened memory BEARS
Each form may wear to the passing gaze


The bloom Of life's freshness vet,
And beams may brighten our latter days


Which the morning never met
But oh! the changes we have seen,


In the faf and winding way
The graves in our paths that have grown green


And the locks that have grown gray!
The winters still on our own NAV snare


The sable or the gold;


But we see their SHOWS upon brighter hair,


And, friends, we are growing old!
We have gained the worlds cold wisdom now,


we have learned 10 pause and fear,
But where are living founts whose flow


Was a joy of heart to hear?
we have won the wealth Of many cline,


And the lore of many page;
But where is the hope that saw in time


But its boundless heritage?
Will It come again when the violet wakes
And the youth their woods renew?
We have stood in the light of sunny brakes i,


Where the bloom is deep and blue;
And our souls might joy in the spring time then,


But the Joy was faint and cold;
For it never could give US the youth again


OF hearts that are growing old! 81