<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=426716" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>In Memoriam</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A gentle loving thoughtful boy, <br>But happy gay and bright: <br>A gleam of sunshine from the sky <br>That filled a home with light. <br>And whether busied with his play <br>Throughout the passing summer day, <br>Or sleepless in the night <br>A simple song by children sung, <br>For ever in his memory rung, <br>Found gleeful utterance from his tongue <br>And filled him with delight — <br>'Jesus loves me — He will stay <br>Close beside me all the way.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But now across the morning sky <br>The shade of night has rolled — <br>Lay all his little playthings by, <br>His hands are still and cold. <br>His loving eyes once bright as day <br>Are turning to their former clay — <br>No more:— the tale is told: <br>The soul has left that pulseless breast <br>For regions of eternal rest. <br>Ay but to die — a child, alone <br>Without a guard or guide <br>To launch into the vast unknown <br>Where shapeless phantoms glide, <br>To cross the gulf no bridge can span <br>To realms unseen by living man <br>All strange and yet untried. <br>With no familiar loved one near <br>To charm away his childish fear, <br>And give him one soft word of cheer <br>To break the dreary void. <br>Alas! conjecture seems to swim <br>And reason waxes faint and dim, <br>But faith affirms 'tis well with him <br>Whatever may betide. <br>Jesus loves him — He will stay <br>Close beside him all the way.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(February, 1879.)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Joseph+Furphy">Joseph Furphy</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=426716" data-title="In Memoriam de Joseph Furphy" data-description="A gentle loving thoughtful boy, But happy gay and bright: A gleam of sunshine from the sky That filled a home with light. And whether busied with his play Throughout the passing summer day, Or sleepless in the night A simple song by childre..."></div> </div> </div>

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