The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1906-07-06
u ISLE OF HOMR.

A golden dream comes unto me,
In fancy I am back among
The happy hours when | was young.
In visions yet ] see the day,
When l had been IL year away
My FIRST year-andI l sought once more,
Heart-sore and sick my fathers door.
And as | climbed the winding road
Upthe last hill, something yrowcd
Within my bosom like a flame.
An ecstacy without a name.
For there, across the evenings gloam.
saw the old barn darkly loom.
And past 1t. from a window bright,
"A sword of glory pierced the night
The light of home. AS from affair
The wise men saw the heavenly star.
So that sweet light. upon my eyes
Seemed leading on to Paradise. y
Again, in fancy, 1 draw near;
Again | through the window peer,
Again l pass the open door.
Again | stee, across the loor:
Again I clasp my mothers form;
Again / feel her tear drops warm;
Again I CLASSY my fathers hand;
Again ! feel my heart expand
Into that overwhelming sense
OF joy too deep for utterance.
But Ills II romance often told,
A story that is sweet and old
A tale that's found the worlds heart worm
Since Jesus gave il deathless form.
And many II heart with joy las burned
Above some prodlgal returned.
So sweet that scene was unto me,
1t sheds Il balm through memory r
Asort of kindly influence brought
To touch and gladden. every thought
THAT night | slppi within-O inv -
Thu room l slept in when a boy;
A golden dream came unto me;
Though the whole world WAS a sea. .
Whose breaking waves rose fierce and high
Beneath "a black. tempestous sky.
And many u life l saw go out;
And many a wreck was strewn about:
But, safe amid the rush and roar.
istood upon IA happy shore.
A land that shonc meath Heavens smile,
Asunny, green and peaceful isle,
On which the old house reared it's form,
An ark Of safety in the storm;
Istood. amid the breakers foam
Secure upon the isle of home.
If you will learn the searious-
ness of life, and it's beauty also
live for your husband: do like the
nightingale to his domestic life
be TO him like the sunshine be-
tween the trees; unite yourself in
wardly to him, be guided by him,
mako him happy, then you will
understand what is the best hap.
piness of life and will acquire, in
your own eyes, a worth with God
and with man. Woman is desi-
gnely a companion and helpmate
for man. She can assist him in
the affairs of a humbel home, or
in the duties of public. She is no
less womanly when she enters the
various arts, sciences, trades and
professions, than when she graces
only the domestic circle. Sue
cessful men in public or private
life often owe much of their sue
cess to the assistance rendered
them by their wives, mothers or
sisters.
The first word a child utters lie
apt to be "Mother," and the old
man in his dying dream calls
Motheri" mother!" 1t matters
not whether she was brought ul
in the surroundings of a city and
in afluent home, and was dressed
appropriately with references te
the demands of modern life, o.
whether she wore the old time cal
and great round spectacles an6
apron of her own make, and kni
your socks with her own needles
seated by the broad fireplace
with great black logs ablaze on
winters night. 1t matters not how