Flowers (my inheritance from grandma written 1918)

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Songbird
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since 1999-12-15

Posts 2184
Missouri

0 posted 2001-04-17 11:08 AM

Flowers

Oh what would this world be today
Without those treasures fair,

Without them would their beauty stay?
I think it would be bleak and bare,

What would it be to pass along
Not a flower to be seen,

Or a little bird to sing it's song
Amid the trees so green?

Oh, sweet beautiful flowers,
How you cheer the lonely hours,
Of the most weary, sick and sad,
Making one an all hearts glad,
Smiling, nodding, bending low..
As the gentle breezes blow

Then lets be thankful in all things and
Even for little flowers..
For it was Him the King of Kings
Created them by His great powers,
And they "unlike poor sinful man
Who seldon does the best he can"
Spring up and all their duty do,
In meek obedience pure and true,
To magnify His matchless powers..
Is that thy mission,
Oh beautiful flowers?

*******

I never met my grandmother who wrote this, she died at age 40 in 1929. She wrote this in 1918 and sent it to my grandfather when they were courting by letters.

Joyce Johnson

Member Rara Avis

since 2001-03-10

Posts 9912
Washington State

1 posted 2001-04-17 12:05 PM

What a lovely inheritance. And you can know so much about her just from her little verse. That was why I started writing, to leave soemthing for my grandchilden to remember me by. Joyce

ellie LeJeune
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since 2000-01-10

Posts 4156
King of Prussia, PA USA

2 posted 2001-04-17 12:06 PM

Now i know where your wonderful gift of poetry comes from! This is a precious treasure you have found! Thank you for this gift to us all. Love, ellie

A friend hears the song in my heart, and sings it to me when my memory fails.

deleeme
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since 1999-10-09

Posts 1766
NEW ENGLAND, USA

3 posted 2001-04-17 06:30 PM

Thank You Songbird, for sharing with us this personal family treasure. Though you never met her- yet through this beautiful poem- she reveals her sweetness- and her memory and appreciation for her lives on through her recorded & preserved words here. How blessed you have this,as a precious link to your past.
David

No Better Place do I know
Than where Hearts knit as
one,
For in that grand
experience,
The Better ALL become.

God Bless us All!!!

WhtDove
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since 1999-07-22

Posts 9245
Illinois

4 posted 2001-04-18 09:36 AM

Sorry for the inconvience. This was wonderfully written so many years ago. What a precious treasure to get.

[This message has been edited by WhtDove (edited 04-18-2001).]

Lighthousebob
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since 2000-06-14

Posts 4725
California

5 posted 2001-04-20 05:20 PM

Songbird,

I rejoyce that the world has returned via the computer to writing one another agian after years of absence. What a wonderful poem of praise to her creator from the flowers and your Grandmother. Her poem is still beautiful today. Bob <><

Trillium

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since 2001-03-09

Posts 12098
Idaho, USA

6 posted 2001-04-20 11:32 PM

Songbird: How thoughtful of you to share your grandmother's poetry with us. My maternal grandmother also wrote poetry and I have several books of her handwritten work that I truly treasure.

Betty Lou Hebert

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