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To-Days

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Brief while they last,      Long when they are gone;     They catch from the past      A light to still live on.     Brief! yet I ween      A day may be an age,     The poet's pen may screen      Heart-stories on one page.     Brief! but in them,      From eve back to morn,     Some find the gem,      Many find the thorn.     Brief! minutes pass      Soft as flakes of snow,     Shadows o'er the grass      Could not swifter go.     Brief! but along      All the after-years     To-day will be a song      Of smiles or of tears.

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