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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 1, 1900

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 77, No. 18.

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TWO SINGERS.

By John Howard Todd

Two singers there were, and one was like To a queen in her royal gown — With a stately step, and pride agleam In the deep of her eyes of brown; And one's was a face with gentler grace, And eyes that a heart shone through — Eyes that borrowed the schoolday tint Of a little sunbonnet of blue.
One was a singer of great renown, Now stirring the blood with a note, Now charming the ear with the cultured tones That came from her shapely throat; And one was a singer of songs of love, And she knew not the ways of art, But she sang right on past the ear, and poured Rich melodies 'round the heart.
Two tributes of song — and one was lost In the deafening volley of cheers; And one throbbed on when the singer was gone, And the answer was silence and tears. Ah, many the day that has passed since then, And the singers who sang are not; But memory holds to a little song, And the other — forgot, forgot!
— John Howard Todd.