Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1909-11-07 | Page 16 | The Love That Never Falters

THAT NEVER N VER FALTERS Here Is a pretty prett good little poem from the pen of ot Cora Corn M N Greenleaf in inthe Inthe inthe the Chicago Journal I ask not for the dole of charity Im asking not for gold sold or silver slIver fee fe feI I ask for love spontaneous and free Not for my worth nor birth of high degree May tender sheltering love encompass me And bide with me good repute or orill ill When Im astray ns to walk beside me still Not leave me when my feet go wrong To light the straighter path of f those more strong The love that joys jo s when songs of vic rio victory tory t swell Or walks beside me to a dungeon du cell ceU I Or shares res the pangs of ot death aye a e dares the grave grav That is the love the love lore I fondly crave And having it I ask not while lille I lv Another r gift from all that Life can give elve he And It altogether a matter atter of a n aw womans w desire ither It Is a condition where wh re the steadfast untiring untirIng ing love of her mate is demanded In that same poem lies lles expression of the love of a father which cannot be turned from his child chUd no matter what the child may do In it rests the love of the mother who considers nothing but that the object of her Interest is her child From the beginning of time there have been men and a few women men too who have felt that they h Y were justified in closing their lr homes and their lr hearts to their erring children You o all re remember remember no member Hazel Kirke You Y u remember Ian Scotch Sc tchI father f who crossed the name of or his daughter out of the family Bible when she had of fended against him I But the spirit of the poem Is the tho bet better better better ter way wa If ever eyer there Is a time when the erring boy or girl needs the love of father and mother the shelter of a ahorn ahome horn hom home It Is s when he or she has gone gone wrong And that Js is true even when they are The obligation Is upon the parent to stand steadfast and strong And if It there be one chord strong enough nough to pull the wanderer back to the paths of right it i Is t the realization which will wm surely come comes I some s me time that the door of the home borne was never closed that the heart of mother and father never ever turned In un unforgiving unforgiving forgiving rebuke There Ther are two sides s to the stor sto of f the Prodigal Son And one oni om 9 f them Is the fathers side Just a as there is a side sl fo the poem e which has nothing at all ail to do with the love tore of women