TO MY PARENTS--1920


For days you watched my toddling steps,
For nights you-watched beside my bed,
For hours and hours you've toiled for me,
For every loving word you said.

For patient care and tenderness,
For truth and purity you taught
By counsel sweet and even more
The lives you've lived, the good you've wrought

For all your love my heart is glad,
Dear Ones, I feel it 'round me still
And never shall it cease to find
Within my heart a place to fill.

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