Excerpt from The Township of Scarboro: 1796-1896 1796-1896. Scarboro Centennial. "One hundred years!" How easily 'tis said - How slight an effort of the gift of speech! Not many letters to comprise it all. A little child can lisp them o'er with ease, But who can grasp the fulness of the time? Or who can measure all that it contains? Its symphonies and mournful cadences, Its echoes of the past that thrill the ear, That stir the heart to richer, fuller life, And cause the pulse to beat with quicker throb As we do muse on days that long are past? - Days that were bright with honest, sunny smiles, Or clouded o'er with sadness, or with pain, - Days full of memories of varied scenes Illumined by the acts of friendship true Of those whose lives were joined to ours in love - But who have left us for a little while, Until the call to us shall also come To enter on a higher, nobler life That knows no end, that is not measured by A term of years, but where ten thousand times Ten thousand centuries are but a drop In the vast ocean of eternity! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.