OUR TRIBUTE TO ELMA

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21473, 22 April 1933, Page 4 (Supplement)

OUR TRIBUTE TO ELMA

It is just six months since our dear little Elma Lee passed away. The plot where ahr lies is now being enclosed, and a headstone erected. In the concrete at the base of the headstone will be set the bronze memorial tablet subscribed for by members of our Circles. It will bear the following inscription:- , A TRIBUTE OF LOVE TO THE MEMORY OF ELMA FROM THE BOYS AND GIRLS OF THE NEW ZEALAND HERALD CIRCLES. TO ELMA. • " While winging home you sang with Joy to greet The dawn we always look for after dark, For, when the Master calls, His voice is sweet To doves who find nowhere to rest their feet, And, homing, reach the shelter of the Ark." , —By Gloria Rawllnson, age 13, Elma'a little friend and companion in suffering. I must tell you of a strange and beautiful occurrence, related to me by Mrs. Lee this week. She writes: " New ground had to be broken for Elma's last resting place, but a week later another little girl was laid in the plot beside her. Between the two graves, at the head of the plot, a beautiful white cosmea has sprung up, and it is now a mass of snowy bloom. Standing so bravely there, it seems like an emblem of purity, resembling the two little white souls that have gone home to their Maker." Is it not a beautiful thought that those white flowers should shower their petals on those iwo little graves, that she who loved flower* so dearly, and lived such a sweet and unselfish life, should aleep beneath that snowy canopy?