Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1909-11-21 | Page 16 | Coming Back from the Cemetery

COMING BACK FROM THE CEMETERY Almost every day d as the carriages e roll 1011 rollaway rollaway away from the gates sates of at the cemetery the men and the women Inside look back on their relations with the life me of ot the man who has Just been laid away and they are glad they were good to him appreciative of at him de deserving deservIng deserving serving of ot his commendation They look back on the days of at the living and find comfort for tor the day of ot the dead J W Foley the poet has expressed 1 something of at that kind In the follow tollow following following ing verses Im glad I was always BO so good to her herI I was just up there in the nursery Picking up things you know that were Left strewn about as carelessly t tAs As a child hUd will do when called from fromI play I picked them up with a mist and blur In my eyes and I laid them all away I Im glad I was always so good to her herAnd herAnd herAnd And the picture that came to me That came to me oer a Teddy bear bearOr bearOr bearOr Or a doll or a whole tin Un Infantry Arrayed In a battle column there Picture on picture of girls and girls s sOne One year and two years and throe three that were Of pinafores and blue frocks and curls curl Im glad I was always BO so good to her Dreams on dreams dream and they ride me mo down Column and phalanx and voices call callAnd callAnd And grasses grow green and come sere acre and brown And paves leaves 1 bud bulL blossom and blow and fall taU She had been six now and seven and ten tenSo tenSo tenSo So tall talland and so tall how fair fall they were How fair they were and would have been Those lost ones Im glad I was good to her herIt herIt herIt It is a little child In that case and andI I the tenderness of at remembering how tall she would have been Is one of ot the most effective touches In all recent verse But the same principle can be applied 1 Lin In the case of or the boy In the tha case of ot the tho woman grown In the tha case of at the theman theman theman man And there thera Is one of ot the Joys of ot the I POEt pott How wise he ha Is Isto to put Into words the sentiments that grip at the heart of ot humanity the thoughts that hold counsel In the general heart of at the therace therace therace race What Mr Foley has done In this Eugene Field did In his Little Boy Blue and Dickens did in hi his Dis Dismissing Dismissing Dismissing missing the tho School In lesser merit Will wm Carleton a few tew years ago did It In his Ills Farm Faim Ballads They spoke to an audience far wider than that of ot the farmer They addressed themselves to th j great heart of or the tha human race And If they are denied the rank of ot poetry they still stU are ore loved because they give a t tue ue to the throbs of ot the soul soulS S SI j live that you can be glad you were good to her heror or him or whoever as you ou come back from the tha cemetery cemetery cemetery tery