• Darby, dear, we are old and gray,
    Fifty years since our wedding day,
    Shadow and sun for every one
    As the years roll on;
    Darby, dear, when the world went wry,
    Hard and sorrowful then was I—
    Ah! lad, how you cheered me then,
    Things will be better, sweet wife again!
    Always the same, Darby, my own,
    Always the same to your old...

  • Proud and lowly, beggar and lord,
      Over the bridge they go;
    Rags and velvet, fetter and sword,
      Poverty, pomp, and woe.
    Laughing, weeping, hurrying ever,
      Hour by hour they crowd along,
    While, below, the mighty river
      Sings them all a mocking song,
          Hurry along, sorrow and song,
            All is vanity ’neath the...