The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1899-08-25

Standing So sunny garden'peace one
day,
ireard lisping voice, and looking
down,
= aw, chlfdwise lifted, pleading face,
And eyes Of brown
OF nay sweet bady daughter, May.
"Tis me" she said
And balanced tiptoe in her birdlike
The bonnet tumbling from her gold
en head.
i stooped, with sudden rapture wild,
TO kiss any child,
When, With a little sobbing start of
dread,
40 papa1 90 put out my SUM-" she
cried,
"And Us al 'aidw
All, truce to kiss my little maid,
needs lad dung my shadow over
her=
And, so. the earth, the fow'rs, the
heavea darkened were,
And her child-soul was terrified!
So G od, sometimes-aye, very Oft
STOPPING to kiss his child, his precious
one,
With tenderness so swift and soft,
Shuts out with face divine the earthly
And seems to shadow whom he loves.
All me,
We are so biind unto his way!
Like Daby May,
Loves passing shade is all of love we
see.
o gracious Father! pity these our ways,
Our childish ways and thoughts here
at thy feet
Like babes we stand,
Loving thee with a love not yet COM
ptete,
So easily offended, sensitive,
Yet unto thee, like child's love, very
sweet,
The pearl OF all that we can give
Into thy hand.
Better, perhaps, our love should not be
wise,
Thou seest us through and though
With thy so pitiful and tender eyes,
And smilest. as we do
On children, loving them the more
For sweet allowances made DER and
o7er.
JAMES BUCKHAM, in Harper's Bazaar.
w.
[ wonder how many of us ever
take into account the unexpected
happenings of our days. For no
matter how prosaic or ordinary the
danger may seem 30 be, If one but
stop TO Investigate they will discover
that there is always something un-
expected in each-a letter, a friend
a gift, tourney, success-some-
thing that we did not look for We
onay get up and go about our work
feeling that we know just what will
happen all day; but we do know but
very little of the strange hours ahead
of us.-Harpers Bazaar.
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"~Stand Firm"
III was once, when a small boy
said H. nry L. Tuckerman, "packed
in a dense crowd at a political meet
lng in Fameuil Hall when Webster
spoke, and came near being crushed
to death,-a pigmy among giants
as he stand ng multitude within
the hall, pressed by those who were
en0eav0ring to enter from without,
began to sway to and fro, a solid
mass of human bodies, as helpless
to c0unteract the movement as il
Faneuil Hall, the Cradle of Liberty;
was being rocked by an earthquake
The orator was in the midst of a
stirring appeal, urging the necessity
of Individual eXertion and untlinch
ing patriotism to avert the dangers
that threatened the political party
whose principles he espOused, when
he preceived the terrible sway OF
the packed assembly and the immi
nent danger that might ensue
Webster stopped short the middle
of sentence, advanced to the edge
of the platform, extended his arm il
an authoritative attitude. and in {
stentorian voice of command, crieC
out: Let each man stand firm?
The effect was instantaneous. Eact
man stood firm; the great heavins
mass OF humanity regained its equil
ibriam, and, save the long breath o
relief that filled the air, perfect still
ness ensued. That exclaimed tn
great orator, lis what we call self
government, so apt an illustration
of the principle he was eXpoundin!
that the vast assembly responded
with deafening cheers"
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