| I LIKE to walk at peace with earth,
Revenge and malice none of mine; I like to breathe the smile of mirth, The flush of joy with absent wine. Still more, to live with human kind In concord, peace and joy supreme; Eternal happiness to find Is my continued earthly dream. So would I live without a care Of trouble on the deep within; So would I live all justified By man as well as God from sin. The tempests that bear down the soul In troubled anguish all unseen, Disturb that rest we anxious crave Upon Life's ocean's glittering sheen. The clouds that separate the skies From man, when sunshine oft he'd know, Send gloom into his inmost soul Where Hope has never set her bow. Mine the skies would ever be, Clear, bright with everlasting Hope; Mine the sunshine's beauty see___ An endless beauty be the scope. 'Mid scenes of joy where placid lie The good of endless happiness, I share the spell and softly lie Me down in quiet to my rest. __James A. DeMoss |
Kansas Zephyrs
James A. DeMoss
(Thayer, Kansas: ___. 1892)
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