
I live for those who love me,
Whose hearts are kind and true,
For the Heaven that smiles above me,
And awaits my spirit too;
For all human ties that bind me,
For the task by God assigned me,
For the bright hopes yet to find me,
And the good that I can do.
I live to learn their story
Who suffered for my sake;
To emulate their glory,
And follow in their wake;
Bards, patriots, martyrs, sages,
The heroic of all ages,
Whose deeds crowd History's pages,
And Time's great volume make.
I live to hold communion
With all that is divine,
To feel there is a union
'Twixt Nature's heart and mine;
To profit by affliction,
Reap truth from fields of fiction,
Grow wiser from conviction,
And fulfill God's grand design.
I live to hail that season
By gifted ones foretold,
When men shall live by reason,
And not alone by gold;
When man to man united,
And every wrong thing righted,
The whole world shall be lighted
As Eden was of old.
I live for those who love me,
For those who know me true,
For the Heaven that smiles above me,
And awaits my spirit too;
For the cause that lacks assistance,
For the wrong that needs resistance,
For the future in the distance,
And the good that I can do.
-George Linnaeus Banks-
8 comments:
How fun!! I love the expression on his face in the last picture! :)
that last picture is hillarious. thanks for the bad mom comment.......you're super.
Priceless. Love the tongue sticking out.
He is the cutest thing ever and your pictures, WOW I need to hire you. I have no clue how to take pics and for my little biz it would be perfect to have some great pics taken. I think I've been doing it since January, its just for fun and I love it.
Did you get everyones blogs? Hopefully you did.
That face is priceless! He's such a cutie.
love the poem- beautiful. (lucas is too- what a sweetie)
HELLOOO la-da-da (thats from seinfield) anywho..hello my patti friend:) YAY..im so glad the invite worked this time!! and im glad you liked my twilight comments..what a geek am i huh??! your pics of lil Lucas are seriously thee cutest pics..he is sooo cute..what a stallion..oh and your spider pics down below..i laughed so hard at your face when you were holding it..i would be creeped out to!! i love checkin in on your blog..always such cute pics!! Happy halloween..ps. what you guys bein?
you do look like your beautiful mother in that picture. and suzie looks like Anna, maybe it's just the glasses:)
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