It Only Seems the Other Day

It Only Seems the Other Day

Though swiftly Time, with rapid wings,

Has borne us from old scenes we knew,

Yet memory oft the picture brings

In glowing colors back to view;

Thus early friends remember when

They first as schoolboys met in play,

And yet, though years have passed since then,

It only seems "The other day."

The form of her we loved of yore,

To whom we pledged affection's vow,

Will glide before our eyes once more,

Though but in memory living now;

Of that dark hair one tress alone—

A treasured gift—is spared decay,

Yet words in that familiar tone

Seemed only breathed "the other day."

These friends appear no more the same

That shared our mirth and dried our tears,

Or taught us childhood's favorite game—

The dear old friends of early years;

But when we ask if they forget

Those memories of the past, they say—

Though time has wrought some changes, yet,

It only seems "the other day."

Unattributed

1:34, p. 1

3.10.1860