Show beechert Bee chern only poem it was related by mrs beecher that during their courtship mr beecher inco dropped into poetry and wrote a few lines of verse teeming with affection for hia sweetheart but the verses were always kept sacred by mrs beecher and nothing could win them from her one day mr and mrs beecher were in tho office of robert bonner the publisher why dont you write a poem beech er said mr bonner he did once said mrs beecher recite it for me wont you mra beecher but the eyes of the great preacher were riveted on his wife and she knew that he meant silence come said mr bonner ill give you if you will recite that poem to me addressing mrs beecher why it ran quickly said mrs beecker eunice simply said mr beecher and although robert bonner offered to double the sum first offered he got the poem from mrs beecher it had been hidden away ever since by mrs beecher and cherished as one of the dearest treasures her husband left her boston globe |