Show IN MEMORY OF A DEPARTED sa SON karl J kennedy who left us just one year ago today I 1 cannot make inake him dead ills his fair hed head Is ever bounding round my st sturdy chair yet when my eyes grow dim with tears 1 turn to him the vision vanishes lie he is not there I 1 iwald I 1 walk my parlor floor and through the open door I 1 hour bear a foot fall on the chamber stair im stepping toward the hall ball to gi give the boy a call and then bethink me that he is not there I 1 know ills his face is hid under the coffin lid closed are his eyes cold is forel forehead lead fair my afy hand that marble felt ore are it in prayer I 1 knelt yet my heart whispers that he is not there acan I 1 can not make him dead I 1 when passing by the bed so long iong wat watched cheI oer with parental care my spirit and ray my eye seek him blin inquiringly before the thought coules that he Is not there I 1 when at the cold gray break of day from sloop sleep I 1 wake with my first breathing of the morning air my soul goes up lip with joy foy to illin him who gave my hoy boy then comes the sad thought that lie he is not there I 1 not there where then Is ii he the farm I 1 used to see the farm I 1 used to see ile he lives I 1 in all the past ile he lives I 1 nor to the last of seeing him again will I 1 despair in dreams I 1 sw hirn him now anikin am on ills his angel brow brol I 1 see it written thou see sec me ine there IA y yes we all live to god father vr thy christening chastening cha chi rod so help us thine afflic eted ones one to benr bear that in the spirit isaid meeting nt at aliv hialit liand hand I 1 twill lp bp our heaven to find that lie is there by ills his mother K K |