Haste to get thee disentangled! Haste to get from bondage free!
Lose not for this world’s possessions, life and immortality!
Early Recollections.
I look back to the past, call to mind former days;
When life was all life, all illumined its rays;
When I entered the ball room in pleasing attire,
Having all that my vain mind or wish could desire.
I had naught here to check, all elated in mind,
Both pastor and people the gay circle joined;
When the priest craved a blessing on dainties most rare,