Poems : patriotic, religious, miscellaneous / by Abram J. Ryan [electronic text]

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Ryan, Abram Joseph, 1836-1886

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Baltimore, Md.: John B. Piet & Co.

1884

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"Poems : patriotic, religious, miscellaneous / by Abram J. Ryan [electronic text]." In the digital collection American Verse Project. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/BAD9548.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 22, 2025.

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"YESTERDAYS."

 Gone! and they return no more, But they leave a light in the heart; The murmur of waves that kiss a shore Will never, I know, depart. 

 Gone! yet with us still they stay, And their memories throb through life; The music that hushes or stirs to-day, Is toned by their calm or strife. 

 Gone! and yet they never go! We kneel at the shrine of time: 'Tis a mystery no man may know, Nor tell in a poet's rhyme. 