Show In Memory of Mrs Jane Stoker The following verses were written oh the death of Mrs Jane Rowe Stoker How fair the face that lately beamed With radiance in joyous wealth 1 How sweet the smile that early gleamed To cheer in feebleness or health 1 And lista merry laugh is heard Reechoing through grove and hall The evening air seems not disturbed Yet flowrlcts nod and leaflets fall We think of them as of the joys Which Nature rains in youthful days When pleasures without gross alloys Fall on our ears come in our ways Should Aphrodite undefiled From Idas haunts cast glances rare Methinks shed recognize a child With beautys jewel resting there And Orpheus with his joyous strain Would catch the melody again A sunny dispositionfree Washers and ready was the hand To giveto dofull readily At home and in a foreign land Where kindred live who soon may come To join us in our mountain home A soul as pure as were the dews On Ledis slopes in early morn When Ellen spread the joyous news Which came to her from Malcolme hnrn Gone is that face that smile that song That intellect so keen and bright 0 nol an errant thought and wrong For when the darkness of the night Is banished by a brighter day Well see well know well understand under-stand Well listen to a better lay In concord well go hand in hand Eternal Life He said Hed give Though he were dead yet shall he live Then dry that tear and quench that sigh And mourn not to a marked excess The hand which governs from on high Is stretched fur is prone to bless A brighter day we all shall see When we are freed from pain and care A universal joy will be In that Sometime in that Somewhere Well leave the old and in review Stand on the threshold of the n wED w-ED M t ROWK I Fresh cabbage at Farmers Coop i |