Dear children this day you have taken vows,
I am sure you will never break;
For your love to each other is pure as gold,
And you will live for each other's sake.
You have taken the vows that's so sacred and sweet,
The vows that were sent from above;
Oh keep them dear children deep down in your heart
For they are the fruit of your love.
May your lives like two rivers that are merged into one,
And sweep on relentless their way to the sea,
Thus flow til you rest on Eternity's shore,
And the walls of that bright jasper city you see.
God bless you my children, is grandfather's prayer,
And if a bouncing fat boy the first baby should be,
I would deem it an honor I ne'er could forget,
If you would just name the young cub after me.
--- L.F. Potter
(We have this poem and others thanks to Uncle Hubert who found two books, in the Maine State Library archives, of poems written by grandfather Laurin F. Potter)
How lovely that you found a bit of heritage at the Maine State Library. We love providing links to our official and intimate histories.
ReplyDeletePeggy
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