FOR MANY OF US THE TIME WILL COME
WHEN WE WILL WONDER WHERE WE’RE FROM.
WHO WERE THEY WHO WENT BEFORE
THEIR NAMES, THEIR HOMES, THEIR LIVES OF YORE.
OUR PARENTS TELL US WHAT THEY KNOW
REMEMBERING STORIES FROM LONG AGO.
MEMORIES SHARP OVER ALL THE YEARS
BUT WASN’T TOLD TO CHILDREN’S EARS.
TO THE OLDER ONES WHO LIVE THERE STILL
WE ASK, “DO YOU RMEMBER MARY OR WILL”?
HOW MANY CHILDREN DID THEY REAR?
WHERE WERE THEIR HOMES, THEIR FARMS?
RIGHT HERE?
WE PROVE - WE SEARCH THROUGH RECORDS DIM
WE FIND A NAME, A DATA-SUPPOSE ‘TWAS HIM’
A SINGLE PICTURE MEANS SO MUCH
A GRAVE STONE TOPPLED,
WE DARE NOT TOUCH.
A WILL, WE FIND, AND NAMES OF KIN
A SALE OF PROPERTY LEFT BY HIM
WE KNOW NOT MORE OF WHERE HE DIED
OR WHERE HE LIVED AT EVENTIDE.
OUR RECORDS NOW, HAVE ALL WE KNOW
WE’VE RESEARCHED LONG HOURS, THE REST
MUST GO UNKNOWN TO THOSE WHO WOULD FIND
IT IS LATE. NO, TIME IS UNKIND.
LET IT BE KNOWN - THIS BOOK NOW HOLDS
OUR FAMILY’S SECRETS YOUNG AND OLD.
IF LOST IT NEVER CAN BE REPLACED.
ITS CONTENTS WERE GATHERED FROM MANY A
PLACE.
SO TREASURE IT WELL, AND PASS IT ON
YOUR CHILDREN MAY WONDER -----
WHERE THEY ARE FROM .
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