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The Family

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 22, 1914

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 91, No. 44.

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The Family

THE family is like a book:
The children are the leaves;
The parents are the cover, that
Protective beauty gives.
At first the pages of the book
Are blank and purely fair;
But time soon writeth memories,
And painteth pictures there.
Love is the little golden clasp
That bindeth up the trust;
O, break it not, lest all the leaves
Shall scatter and be lost!
— Selected.