Who hath conquered death and hell;
Captive led captivity;
Always doing, all things well;
Giving us the victory!"



MY SCHOOLBOY DAYS.

The following poem was read at the forty-fifth anniversary of the
marriage of Mr. and Mrs. James Swaney, on January 11th, 1883. Mr.
and Mrs. Swaney's residence is not far from the site of the school
house where Mr. Scott first went to school.

Dear friends and neighbors, one and all,
I'm pleased to meet you here;
'Tis fit that we should make this call
Thus early in the year.

That time flies rapidly along,
And hurries us away,
Has been the theme of many a song,
And it is mine to-day.

I stand where in my childhood's days,
I often stood before,
But nothing meets my altered gaze
As in the days of yore.

The trees I climbed in youthful glee,