Poems (Stephens)/Home memories
HOME MEMORIES.
A seeming presence in these rooms Still beautifies and makes them dear.For loved and lost companionship Survives in sweetest memories here.
We bring to mind familiar forms, Though in the mold for long they've lain,And give to each their wonted place, As if in truth they lived again.
And echoes of each loved one's voice Seem wafted from the happier shore,In all those sweet inspiring tones That we shall hear on earth no more.
Those friends still cheer us with such smiles As now their angel faces wear.Beloved ones, they're safe at home, And wait for us that home to share.