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Show JUST FOLKS j . By a. Qmm w THE LARGE I A MM v Time was we seldom bowed to care,! the family was small. An' grief went walkln' down the way an' never stopped to call. We heard of sorrow here an' there an' ' saw time's constant change. But 11 was all so far away an' seemed o very strange-That strange-That Joyously we lived our lives, scarce thtnkln" we must know The sorrows others had to bear, but that was long ago- a And now the family has grown. Its circle stretches wide And very often now our hearts by care and grief a tried. We've many here who share our love, and some of them are old, Soon by the Shepherd to be called into the Heuvenly fold. And we havo bowed our heads In grief and lhed those days of woe Which seemed so strange to us back there In the glad long ago. We've drawn the shades against the sun, we've said the last good-bye,1 We underi.tund Just what It meins to see a loved one die. For as the family larger grows more oft we come to care And greater are the burdens that our hearts are asked to bear. And yet our Joys have multiplied, glad nhllefl throughout the years And love and laughter we have known to pay us for our tears |