Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1890 — Looking Backward. [ARTICLE]

Looking Backward.

Those simple rhymes of other day* We never shall fbrget. Each line of those old childish lays Is fresh in memory yet. They linger in the halls of thought Like melodies in tune. “Hey, diddle, diddle! The cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon.” The better rhymes and newer songs We’ve heard in later years, Havo from the heart forever rone; Still memory adheres To those old worJs whose import strong ’ Into our lives has crown. “Old Mother Hubbard, she went to her cupboard To get her poor dog a bone.” Why fioes the heart so fondly cling To youthful thoughts and themes! Up from the tender vales of spring Come all our later dreams. We stdl recall the youthful times And for their pleasures sigh: “Little Jack Horner sat in a corner, Eating a Christmas pie.”