Show JUST FOLKS By Iy EDGAR GUEST TWO VO BIRTHDAYS Two birthdays on the self-same self day And all the joy of both I knew Im firm three I heard our Janie say The other I am ninety- ninety two Not often in this life appears So great a difference in years The rooms with love and laughter laugh laugh- ter rang To years Three and Nine Nine- ty-two ty The happy birthday song Bong we sang As always friends and loved ones do To years old we spoke t the e word That two Ninety-two so oft had heard When she who now with age is gray Like little Jane was waa three years old There was no one back then to say What cares the years to come would hold But having borne them all she smiled As blithely as a little child God grant if it such a thing can b be And years Three reach two ninety-two That she may be as fair to see When all her life is is in review And seem as 88 grateful and as glad For all the happiness she's had I L |