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I?m never surprised, and the reason is that.
I?ve learned through the years the ways of a cat.
OCT 19, 1958
(To my little grey kitten) ?Miss Blue?
(A Poem)
THE DEFINITION OF LOVE
Love is like the spring?s soft rain upon a laughing brook Love is found in rhyme and praise in every poet?s book Love is like the twinkle in a happy mother's eye Love is a priceless gift, one should never let pass by,
Love is like a gentle word when everything goes wrong Love is like the sweet refrain of a maiden?s song Love is the most priceless word the world has ever known Love is like, a man?s heart feels when he is ?going home.?
Only God can give you the actual definition of love, for only God can look into the human heart-(I only tried)
ON THE SHORE OF OLD ERIN
There?s a little thatched cottage on the shore of old Erin.
Far across the restless sea.
There?s a lady who?s praying and with each prayer she?s saying Dear Lord, bring my son back to me.
There?s a candle still burning hoping for my returning To the cottage on Old Erin?s shore If the good Lord be wiling I?ll be soon on my way To the arms of my mother, come this Christmas day.
Dcc. 3, 1958 To Rev. Kevin Reed
OLD MAN OF THE SEA
I stood on a rugged. New England shore just me and my memory Silhouetted, against the sky, stood an old man of the sea I thought I was dreaming when suddenly he stood beside me and said ?You too have sailed the mighty main? then slowly bowed his head I watched the waves, beat against the shore like the sound of a great rhapsody Then I noticed a tear, upon the chcek of the old man of the sea We walked together along the shore, and then he said to me I was young and I never dreamed how soon the years move on