Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 138, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1917 — I’ve Wished Time Away. [ARTICLE]

I’ve Wished Time Away.

Since I Wan remember and all through my life? With its pleasures and sorrows, its trou- — teles and strife. There's something we wanted. I must wait day by day. To come by it quickly, I’ve wished life away. How in my schooldays I envied the men. And Wished I were grown up, to be just like them. I was so Impatient I could brook no delay; The time passed so slowly, I wished life away. When I grew to a man, and I became married, With a family around me, and life's burden I carried, So hard did I labor, I scarcely could stay TUI my day’s work was done; I wished life away. And now in my old age I look back with tears On the time that is past, fully three score of years. I’m growing quite feeble, my hair’s turned to gray. My race’s about run; I’ve wished life away, —William E. Burke.