Down By The Riverside

Andrew Joseph Nash

                 

 

Full many days have passed and gone

How quickly did they glide

Since all my friends at early dawn met by the riverside

In summertime we wandered off

Just four of us as boys

There was Jack and George and Joe and I

Down by the riverside

 

Where are the boys, those merry boys

Who joined with me in play

Not all have reached to manhood prime in Branch St. Mary's Bay

Some are now in foreign lands

Some in the church yard lie

And few of us are let to stray

 

The hands of time’s passed o’er our brown

Sprinkled its chilly snow

Our steps are weak

We tother now, the bright waves onward flow

But as I gaze upon the scene I love thee still with pride

As dear in age as youthful dreams

Down by the riverside.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On the bottom of the  page Mr. Andrew Joseph had written:“ A beautiful January day, 1929.”

Branch Come Home Year

August 9-19, 2007