The Last Chance: A Tale of the Golden West

by Rolf Boldrewood

Which suits a summer noon;

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]‘“Or of the church-clock and the chimes

Sing here beneath the shade,

That half-mad thing of witty rhymes

Which you last April made!”

‘In silence Matthew lay, and eyed

The spring beneath the tree;

And thus the dear old man replied—

The grey-haired man of glee:

‘“No check, no stay, this streamlet fears;