Re-unions of the Davis, Noble, Kinder Families

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J.W. Stowell Printing Company, 1916
 

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Página 8 - OH, a wonderful stream is the river of Time, As it runs through the realm of tears, With a faultless rhythm and a musical rhyme, And a boundless sweep and a surge sublime, As it blends with the Ocean of Years. How the winters are drifting, like flakes of snow, And the summers, like buds between ; And the year in the sheaf — so they come and they go, On the river's breast, with its ebb and flow, As it glides in the shadow...
Página 8 - Time, Where the softest of airs are playing; There's a cloudless sky and a tropical clime, And a song as sweet as a vesper chime, And the Junes with the roses are straying. And the name of the isle is the Long Ago...
Página 17 - And ever near us, though unseen. The dear immortal spirits tread; For all the boundless universe Is life — there are no dead.
Página 16 - They are idols of hearts and of households, They are angels of God in disguise; His sunlight still sleeps in their tresses, His glory still gleams in their eyes; Oh ! those truants from home and from heaven, They have made me more manly and mild ! And I know how Jesus could liken The Kingdom of God to a child.
Página 10 - Tis sweet, as year by year we lose Friends out of sight, in faith to muse How grows in Paradise our store.
Página 8 - Babies short and babies tall, Babies big and babies small, Blue-eyed babies, babies fair, Brown-eyed babies with lots of hair, Babies so tiny they can't sit up, Babies that drink from a silver cup, Babies that coo and babies that creep, Babies that only can eat and sleep, Babies that laugh and babies that talk, Babies quite big enough to walk...
Página 17 - The warm, sweet breath of May. There is no death! the choicest gifts That heaven hath kindly lent to earth Are ever first to seek again The country of their birth. And all things that for growth of joy Are worthy of our love or care, Whose loss has left us desolate, Are safely garnered there.
Página 17 - They are not dead! they have but passed Beyond the mists that bind us here Into the new and larger life Of that serener sphere.
Página 16 - Oh, these truants from home and from heaven, They have made me more manly and mild ! And I know now how Jesus could liken The kingdom of God to a child. I ask not a life for the dear ones, All radiant, as others have done, But that life may have just enough shadow, To temper the glare of the sun...

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