Shelby County TN Archives News.....The Past And Future November 22, 1862 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/tn/tnfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Bill Boggess william-boggess@webtv.net May 1, 2006, 2:35 pm Arkansas State Gazette November 22, 1862 (transcribed 05-01-06) copy, courtesy of Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, Little Rock           ---------<>---------- FOR THE ARKANSAS STATE GAZETTE.       Within the last four weeks a little girl, just fourteen years old, sat by the sick bed of her Father, as he slept, a few evenings after the deah of her Mother, she composed the following lines. At the suggestion of those who think favorably, alike, of the filial piety, and poetical talent, they exhibit, they are published for pursal of a circle of sympathising friends:         THE   PAST   AND   FUTURE.                   ------          by: FANNY GREEN BORLAND.                  ----------        Those happy times --- Those Happy times!             They will never come again:       But all throughout my future life,             They'll purr the same sweet strain.       The pleasant jest, the merry laugh,             The shadows on the wall,---       Ah ! now those shadows only hit             Through memory's silent hall.       I tripped along life's rosy path,             Without a single thorn:       Twas like a dream --- a happy dream             That led the donning morn.       But now your gentle Mother's gone, ---             Forever from us hid       The soft, sweet smile, the dark grey eye             Below the waxen lid.       And now ---O dear! I feel the thorns,             The rose begins to fade:       Now Mother's lovely form's within             The silent Coffin laid.       But the meek and lowly Jesus,             Who drank life's bitter cup,       Hath said that ---'when you are orphans,             Then I will lay you up!'       When the happy will not take us,             In their gay and joyful pride ---       When the world and all forsake us,             Come we to Jesus side!           ----------<>---------- Additional Comments: Fanny (1848AR-1879TN), d/o Col Solon Borland (1811VA-1864TX) and Mary Isabel Melbourne (1824LA-1862AR), born Sept 1848 lost her brother George Godwin (1846AR-1862TX) 24 June then her father comes home sick in June no longer in the Confederate Army, followed by a long illness, her mother died 23 October 1862, with her father at home very ill,--- she wrote this beautiful poem having turned fourteen years of age in September, with Mollie, two years younger, at home. They moved back to Princeton sometime before 10 Sep 1863, when the Federal troops took Little Rock after losing it in Feb 1861. Solon left for Texas from Princeton 13 Sep 1863 where he died first day of Jan 1864 near Houston. It wasn't until 4 March 1864 that word got back to Princeton of his death. He had left four thousand forty-five dollars, two slave girls and household furniture to Mrs Martha Holmes to look after his daughters. "Little Solon", Major Harold Borland (1835NC-1921AR) appeared in Princeton 30 December 1864 after being in Federal prison at Ft Warren. Fanny's other work: (1872 news) File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/tn/shelby/newspapers/thepasta8nw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/tnfiles/ File size: 4.1 Kb