Poetry of Kansas

Memory's Album

WHAT in my hand I hold?
    An album? No.
'Tis jeweled memory
    Of friends I know.
 
In heaven and through the earth,
    I know not where;
Yet still they all alike
    In mem'ry glare.
 
Fresh as the jeweled dome
    That spans above,
They sparkle in my night,
    These friends I love.
 
By mem'ry's eye I see
    Them once again;
And live with them this life
    Over again.
 
Only the pain of years
    I miss, that's past;
Perhaps my solitude
    Is heaven at last.

__James A. DeMoss

 

Kansas Zephyrs
James A. DeMoss
(Thayer, Kansas: ___. 1892)
Page 28

 
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