Poetical Fragments from Ethel Churchill Volume II/Change
For works with similar titles, see Change.
For works with similar titles, see Mutability.
CHAPTER XXV.
MEETING OF OLD FRIENDS.
How much of change lies in a little space!
How soon the spirits leave their youth behind!
The early green forsakes the bough; the flowers,
Nature's more fairy-like and fragile ones,
Droop on the way-side, and the later leaves
Have artifice and culture—so the heart:
How soon its soft spring hours take darker hues!
And hopes, that were like rainbows, melt in shade;
While the fair future, ah! how fair it seemed!
Grows dark and actual.
Blanchard’s title is:
CHANGE
In The New Yorker (23rd March 1838), as Mutability