Show YOU A flash You came into my life And 10 a own the years Rainbows of promise stretched across The sky grown gray with tears By day you were my sun of gold By night my silver moon I could not tiono the fathers hands Have asked a greater boon Lifes turbid stream grew calm and clear The cold winds sank to rest Hand clasped with you no bitter pain Found dwelling in my breast I did not dread lifes care and toil Your love dispelled all gloom And now on graves of buried hopes The sweetest violets bloom My every breath > and every thought Were pure because of you I had not dreamed that heaven could be fao close to mortal view My hands and feet were swift to do The good that near them lay And in my heart throughout the year jne joy Dird s > ang each day A flash You passed out of my life No no Yb spirit still Is sun and mob and guiding star Through every cloud and ill As down the rainbow years I go You still are at my side And some dayei shall stand with you Among the glorlned Clarence UrmyJn The Youths Com panion f |