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To My Mother

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 9, 1916

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 93, No. 56.

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To My Mother

I do not build a monument Of carved white marble for your sake, That only those who pass may read, And only those memorial make.
My life must be the monument I consecrate in your behalf; My charity must carve your name, My gentleness your epitaph.
Above this record I engrave, No drooping figure there must be; Straight-shouldered Courage, starry-eyed, Must mark this scroll of destiny.
And may some fragment of your strength By God's great mystery fall on me, That through this monument of mine May shine your high nobility.
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