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1 J Organ of iheNorfh Carolina Confere nee. '1 ' SIXTY-PDTH YEAR.'"'' PAT UTnTTTrT7TT7T"'" '"VS """"(PSr P 71 I tW - f RALEIGH, N, C, MARCH 13, 1919 f ) Iflpf I '1 Life's Real Jewels By WILLIAM COLFAX MARKHAM. She was old and worn and wrinkled and gray, And her step was feeble, as she pressed her way To the ticket window, a fare to buy For a far-away town. She breathed a sigh; For the whistle and clang of the coming train, The bustle and noise confused her brain. Out on the farm by the meadow brook, The whip-poor-will's song in the shady nook, The music of showers on the growing grain, A.nd violets dripping a giad refrain, Had softened her heart and opened her eyes To the wealth of earth's real paradise. Mid the jostling crowd in the coach's aisle, She brushed a woman in the latest style Of velvet and plush and jewels gay, On pleasure bent life's smiling way Who heeded her not, and scorned to know That souls are not measured by raiment and show. As the train sped on, the woman of wealth, Placed jeweled fingers as if by stealth To her soft, white throat, to protect a pin Set with four diamonds, all sparkling within. With never a care or thought of distress, She dreamed of high halls where throngs do not press. over Across the car, her face drawn with care, Sat the mother of sons some of them there." She too at her throat held a careworn hand Which covered a pin four starred with plain band. But she visioned a world free from turmoil and strife, Where her jewels might shine in the City of Life. 5
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