In just a few Years
We shall remember by and by The children’s laughter and their song And it may be that we shall sigh For coats to hang where they belong And toys to gather from the floor When evening comes to close the day. For all these tasks will be no more When they have grown and gone away
These countless little cares we do We’ll greatly miss in years to be. We’ll some day wish that-they would strew Their things about so carelessly. The house will seem so still and neat That as we sit together then We’ll wish their little muddy feet Would race about the place again.
When age has claimed them as it must And we shall sit at home alone You’ll merely have the chairs to dust And I io ’tend the telephone. We shall remember then that we Once picked up playthings here and there And we shall long once more to see Their hats and coats upon a chair.
—Edgar A. Guest, in Tit-Bits. '
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 58, 1 December 1934, Page 20
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