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part's (Carrier. — » 4 TO MY SCQOOLFELLOvV OF FIPIT YE I US AGO, CAPT. JOHN PHILLIPS, CAHLl.MA.iTHE-V. I'VE wandered in the filiate, John, I've sa, benea'h the tree, Upon the sehool-h,use p ay-grounds >Vhich sheltered you and me But none «e.e there to greet me, John, And 'ew were left to k,,o.v, That plaved with us upon the green. Some fifty years ago. The grass is just as green, John Barefooted boys at play, Were sp rting just as we did than, With spirits just as gay v But the milster sleeps upon the hill, Which, coated o'er with snow, Afforded us a sliding place. Just fifty years ago. The old school-house is altered now, The benches are replaced But new ones, very like the same .Our penknives had defaced But the same old bricks arc in the wall, The bit swings to and fro, It's music just the same, dear John, 'Twas fifty years ago. The spring that bubbled 'neath the hill, Close by the spreading beach, Is very low—'twas "nce s high, It's boughs we could not reach And, kneeling down to get a drink, Dear John, I started so, To see how much that I am changed Since fifty years ago. Nei r by the spring, upon an elm, You kno v 1 cut your name- Your sweethearts just beneath it, Tom- And you did mi:le the same Some heartless wretcti hath peeled the bark Twas dying, sure, but slow, Just as th .t one, whose name you wrote, Died twenty years ago. My lids had long been dry. John, But the tears came in my eyes; I thought of her I loved so wetl- Those early broken ties I visited the old churchvard, And took some flowers to strew Upon the urates of those we loved, Some thirty years ago. Some are in the churchyard laid, Some sleep beneath the sea; But few are left of our old class, Excepting you and me And when our time shail come, John, And we are culled t) go I hope they'll lay us where we played, Just fifty years ago. SAMUEL PHILLIPS. Llanellv, August 25th, 185-5.

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