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/ Glad boyish voices with merriment ring, / Two children with nought, as gayly they sing / Of burdensome care, their hearts as the bird / To mountains oft' soar in freedom, unstirred / By future, and what it furtively brings / Of pleasures, or grief, or life's bitter stings. / The shadowed cross e'er failing to see, / Thoughts flitting as bubbles on oft' changing sea.
From childhood spring youths with fair open brows, / Surrounded by all earth ever allows / Of conquering fame, while life's deepest charm / They sip from the fount of love's laden balm. / Of treasures untold to reap they aspire, / At vanity's fair rich harvests acquire, / Over this vision in mystery toss, / A shadow that lifts, unveiling a cross.