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.
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.
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.
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.
As now their angel faces wear.
Beloved ones, they're safe at home,
And wait for us that home to share.