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ROXBORO, H. 0.;;Maroh":i5, 1899
A VISIT TO HEAVEN
(Marie Annie Henson.)
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, I xu a. uuw wny aiuue lib was Sitting,
As if , in thought was the gray
1. v ,: head bent low,
r And'th beard on his osom was
, , rested'
' r- ' Was as white as the new fallen
snow.
Y As I watched him, a great flood of
T Filled my heart and a shadow was
thrown
O'er the future's bright picture Fd
painted,
! V Would I some some day be old and
alone?
v; ''Say, grandpa," (for thus 'twas the
. A j eld man -
- Was called by his old friends and
. new.)
"Of what are you thinking," I
,. ,
questioned,
. , ,
"as you six nere tne oreary aays
through?
There are so many good things, my
. girlie,
That I could scarcely tell you
them all,
But the thing that I think of, now,
mostly,
Is my visit to heaven last fall.
Yes, you look surprised like the
others,
Rnf. ohM if r h-nA M nan he.-
Though it does seem so strange that
the Master
Should let in an old fellow like
me.
"XUU csec, twos iu tuxa way it up-
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v nened:
T7q'ttq lioon rtlrkoa -Priori r I a ni in (i nu
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The Master and me and the old wo-
. man
When my old woman, girlie, was
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'Twas soon aite I found Hm we" "'"""r " 7u 7
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Were bantized together, you know,
And He's loved us and stood by us
" always,
Sinn tfcofe old dava. bo lonar. loner
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ago.
vv en. me-uovs buuu trrew uu aiiu
1 married
. , ' ' A , t, .
The srirls went to homes of their
- own;
Then we wer, more to each other
4Lftn pWr
' - "T ,
ne oia woman ana me wnen
alone.
SVip was alwava a frail little creat-
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. A wee little woman liKe you,
And often, so often, when ailing,
I'd by her all the night th
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- power
To the 'Pos ties He gave, He'd give
me, . .
And. holding her .hand m mine,
; t : Sirlle ; . .
; , The old woman'd get better, you
seer
, utBhe couldn't stay-here with me
always, -. . ' t
$0 matterV hdw good she waa
nursed, . '
.AndHwastfe,-yeabest,thatHe..,..?hite,; - , , ; ;.'lTi;2ZSS
left me, - ,
And to heaven took the'old woman
"Then the phildren all begged me to
- break ud. , .1 ;
And dome live with them, but jou
know
Tw'as useless for them to ,r be, talk
.'Twpuld almost break my heart,
V - child to go. . V ; ; -
"From here vvhefe her light ; step, I
. ; s fancy, . . ' .
Thear m the hall on ths' stair;.
And once, I was, sure that I saw her,
In her blue , speckled dress, stand-
' - ing there.
'VT was upon the hillside, they laid
her, , . "
And of times at night do I go .
Up there and talk to the old woman,
Just like I used to, you know.
"Last fall 'twas, that I; too; was ail-
I was home-sick for heaven, I
', ? ; guess--" ,( ,J
When, at once, I don't know how it
happened,
Such a sight as my old eyes did
bless!
"'Twas glorious!" The old man
laugned softly,
"Th& prettiest thing to behold,
The city a little way off, dear,
The streets, the purest of gold!
rFfiWflrr1 mp T catxr pnminor o nor-
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riage,
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Drawn by horses as white ag the
snow,, ; v
Strange I didn't know where I was
at, dear,
But as I stood there a wondering
0.
r"A voice from the carriage cried
gladly:
'There he is! You've come at last
Pa!"
In a moment I was clasped in strong
arms
0f my boy who was kllled in the
war.
'AH dressed out he was in fine broad
cloth
Finer far than on this earth is
VrmcrVir
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The carriage wss pure gold and bu-
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ver
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And all was the prettiest sort!
We daghed up the gtreetj and ,twa8
somehow
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T'll lr r rmr if. a era i n nn f Vip nrnpr
xvn wiine, ucai, auu tuico otunco
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Qh the h in he iaughed
soltlv
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Ana aasnea on a tear, -wnac waB
una
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In her blue speckled calico dress-
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,,Sh floated down int0 my w
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dear,
in the gracefulest wav as could be
a fi,Q rQQ iiMfr
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The babe that 1 never aia see.
" 'Twas born when away at my
j ufp -
wfao sick nuto death( BO
Uutwhenl come DacK to tne motner
I found that our baby was dead.
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"There 'twas with its white wings so
. httie,
Just fuzzing up sort as could be,
. And there, locked in each other's
arms, deari
Was tne little oiu wuuiau auu me.
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'Theh.we went in the house and I
jested,
rk .On a bed, dear, so soft- and. so
With my loved ones all sittiug around
f - . me;, . ,
in a stcond . somehow it all 7 van
; 1 ished, y - V
Old neighbors stool, there .'round
mv bed, v
Bendingr me with kind; anxions
faces,:, .V: .
And I had famied, they said. .
'Course it seemed! hard to b'lieve
what I lold them,' ' ' t .
, .:But the Master, wio's so gbodJo
me,-. - . v - u f
Just knew ,how J'ni : homeich for
; , heaven, . :. J T . v
And took my soul on a", visit, you
c 'Tis enough noy to y fit here ' a-
thinking
' Of his, good u ess and how glad I'll
be
Wnen I see Him in His' beauty, up
. yonder, '
; Where the old woman's waiting
' for me.
"He knows how to comfort us al
ways;
What? I'm sorry, dear chiJd, vbii
you must go;
We'll finish our talk up in heaven
First house on the corner, yon
know."
As the train sped away from the
mountains,
- A hush over my spirit was cast,
A sweet, sohmn hush, as if angels,
Had brushed with their wings as
? . they passed.
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bottle nroduced an im-
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nd not a sign of the disease has returned." , 1
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