Salt Lake Herald | 1897-05-27 | Page 4 | In Hopes

IN HOPES Some years ago there lived on high In solitary state A soltr In sooth twas I Pursuing thus my fate Puruing And a In sadness I gazed round And paced that lonely floor for the solid ground I longed not sold grund But just for one room more Twas then or not long after that Jy wish came more than true ly modest flat I moved into a moest fat Where I supported two That Is to say until a third Came down through heavens door And then my wife and I averred Wed like just one room more Today In deep felicity 1 Within a house = L i With number one ana two and three And four ana live as wen Wo thought twas ample when we came Yet as I think It oer I find our plaint Is Just the Sme T Ve need but one rooni more g I Perchance kind stranger as you read This ditty that I sing A tear bedims your eye you need With me the selfsame thing Then let us Join our hands and pray That some time when we soar Up to our mansions far away Well have that one room more I Tom Masson In Boston Herald