Show TO MY I 1 my aly old sweetheart is fading now ashes sixty two this birthday her hair is while that once was gold her teeth are white and pearly she reared a family of ten I 1 often find her weeping for the two dhove gone to the great beyond beneath the sod sleeping I 1 with a prattling infant on her knee she enjoyed a world of pleasure with the others playing hide and seek it thrilled me without measure our home was like a paradise with the birds a nesting round it it if a happier place ts is on t the e earth IL I 1 never yet have found it the master dipped his brush in dyes aid painted like a fairy her rosy cheeks and ruby lips I 1 als ais before we married N jw the trust of time is on her brow tor rier footsteps slow and feeble with ith her fancy work upon her lap fe e plies piles the hook and needle her azure eyes are growing dim ahat 1 at once were brightly shining aut the cie love that dwells within her soul shows no sign of lot declining aid A id when lifes evening sun isun has set uon this world of 0 sorrow she ll 11 pass beyond this vail of tears and be young again tomorrow or days of youth have long cinci passed though stronger our affection and soon well lay our bodies down to await the resurrection aad when the sands of time haat run aud and the thread of life is severed well meet beyond the power 0 death and unite again forever W G REYNOLDS vernal utah |