Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-02-22
ANNIVERSARY POEM.
OUR BIRTHDAY.
BY Mrs. Charlotte e. Gllchnst.

Ever coming ever going,
Silently with knowing,
The days have circled into years;
And we, too awake sleeping
Joyousy sadly weeping
WIN the days In step are kaeping
Rhythm with the moving spheres,
'Tis well to note the flight Of time
To mark the birthdays by one
40 pause ana read the thoughts sublime,
as through the passing years they come
10 teach us IL we only heed
The wisdom sent to In need
Thus, we to our club come greeting
Greetings alike to one and all;
M MnG w s6cG s9d passed the hour Of meeting
Our club birthday and twenty five;
All mel how gladly would strive
IN retrospect to view again
Some of the dear familiar faces
We have known and scenes, an places
Nor Is this a--the years we faln
Would gladly backward turn more.
And from their daily garnered store
That from their lessons we might learn
Needed guidance for coming years
But swiftly by us years have flown
And early club friends have known
Have sought out SUMMER places;
And their kindly deeds she traces
This subtle truth alone she learns
T II at as ,s,, we VIII the truth is plain
And Of the golden harvest be-
Not over covetous, vain,
For each OF us, as all must see,
Are cleaners all where'er we So.
Ever coming ever going
And the oft repeated sowing
or falow fields may not reap;
But just DER fields vernal
Time within the realm superna
In the storehouse Of the Eternal,
Our bearded grain will keep
Ever coming the months and years
Have carried by the carking fears
OF parental solicitude
For ool-the club of other days
"A woman now, and fair to see
Her own self government essays:
Pride Of our early history
Is with the noble thought imbued
The arbiter Of her own good
We look upon her face today
All beaming with young womanhood
Most fondy, proudly and for aye
Lay on her brow the mstetoe;
We wish that like the sturdy oak,
When adverse storms and wild winds blow
OF thoughts untoward she may grow
stronger and stronger for each stroke.
And let us one and all agree
In future days II stress or doubt
Assai her purpose from without
or wantou foes be at her worth
That her strong bulwark eer shall be,
The Christian thought which gave her birth.
Ever coming ever going
Time for aye IL ever showing,
Golden sunsets adown the west;
Where his barQues Of stored measure
Waiting in their stately leisure,
Frighted with each hearts own treasure,
Lie on the waves at rest
Softly through our songs Of gladness
Mingled notes Of tender sadness,
Echong round us here AMI there
Nibiate upon the pulslng air
And we pausng list and llnger,
To each voice and for each singer.
And listening for the strains afar
Where pearly gates stand all aiar
Notes We hear. clear and clearer
Forms We loved near and nearer!
And we feel hat DER bending,
Whitc-robed members attending,
And their Joys with are blending.
joy that on happy birthday
Fields FOR thought they left all fallow,
Which II sill today caloT.
Have with precious truth been strewn.
o may the fields our club has sown
Through future years be gay
with flowers and fruit from DER the earth,
And may their inhu nee for aye,
Be seen and FELT for their true worth
Ever coming going,
Fleeing years round us are throwing
Memoirs mantle Of the past
And In the sunsets cleaning
in her fmy robe Of seeming
wltchery OF daylight dreaming
Lay 10 rest at last