


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-
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Cute pictures! Everyone should get that yellow bus in their first day pictures.
The other day I was thinking Lucas was looking so grown-up, but next to the bus he still looks like a little boy.
What great pictures.
The Bus, the old barn. Those look like magazine photos from Good Housekeeping, or Martha.
You get over the tears fast eh?
You know in Finding Nemo how Nemo's like "First day of school! First day of school!" as he swims all around his daddy and pokes him with his nose to wake him up? ...And then Marvin/Marlin/whatever his name is gets suuuuuper protective and tells him to play with the babies on the squishy anemone? I can't get that out of my head when I look at these. But somehow I can't see it being quite the same for Lucas with David.
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