: The Album Writer's Friend Comprising More Than Three Hundred Choice Selections of Poetry and Prose Suitable for Writing in Autograph Albums Valentines Birthday Christmas and New Year Cards. by Ogilvie J S John Stuart Compiler - Quotations; Poetry Collecti

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PAGE DEDICATION VERSES, 5 SENTIMENT AND AFFECTION, 9 MISCELLANEOUS, 27 ESTEEM AND CONFIDENCE, 45 BIRTHDAY VERSES, 49 HUMOROUS, 53 CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR, 57

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SUITABLE FOR INSCRIPTION ON TITLE PAGES OF ALBUMS.

MY Album's open! Come and see! What! Won't you waste a line on me? Write but a thought, a word or two, That Memory may revert to you.

TO MY FRIENDS:--

MY Album is a garden spot Where all my friends may sow, Where thorns and thistles flourish not, But flowers alone may grow. With smiles for sunshine, tears for showers, I'll water, watch and guard these flowers.

GO forth, thou little volume, I leave thee to thy fate; To love and friendship truly Thy leaves I dedicate.

GO, Album! range the gay parterre; From gem to gem, from flower to flower, Select with taste and cull with care, And bring your offering, fresh and rare, To this sweet maiden's bower!

WHEN years elapse, It may, perhaps, Delight us to review these scraps, And live again 'mid scenes so gay, That Time's rough hand has swept away; For when the eye, bedimmed with age, Shall rest upon each treasured page, Those pleasant hours That once were ours Shall come again, like Autumn flowers, To bloom and smile upon us here When all things else seem sad and drear; 'Twill tune our hearts and make them sing, And turn our Autumn into Spring!

GO, little book, thy destined course pursue, Collect memorials of the just and true, And beg of every friend so near Some token of remembrance dear.

AS life flows on from day to day, And this, your book, soon fills, How many may be far away From treasured vales and hills?

But there is joy in future time To turn the pages o'er, And see within a name or rhyme From one you'll see no more.

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