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Show OUR DEBT By DOUGLAS MALLOCH HE WHOM I owed died ere the day Arrived I had the means to pay, Yet that did not discharge the debt ; For there were heirs remaining yet, And courts and conscience both require re-quire We pay the son, who owed the sire. Yet some of us who owe the vast Indebtedness we owe the past Forget the future fair must be As was the present made for me. The past Is dead, the world declares. And yet . the world must pay its heirs. How many times men gave me aid And then within their graves were laid! But still the debt I owe survives, And I must brighten other lives," Must pay the debt, though they are gone, To other men who follow on. . 1933, Douglas Halloch. WNTJ Service. |