Name/Title
AU Lambert, Alva Elwood - 1915-10-08 - 'In Memory of Brother Frank'Entry/Object ID
2004.1.3Context
Oct 8th 1915
In memory of brother Frank
Just thirty five years ago to day
Our dear brother Frankie passed away
To that heavenly home where God's mansions be
He is watching and waiting for you and me
Yes our own dearest brother how hard it did seem
So quiet and truthful and almost seventeen
How well I remember but time has passed
Where at old Mt. Hermon we laid him to rest
'Neath the apple tree's bough where father had cared
The letter *D in that quiet church yard
We laid him there gently beneath the sod
But his spirit rests with his maker, God
As I sit and muse by the fire tonight
I think of our boyhood happy and bright
When brother and I in work or play
Spent happy hours from day unto day
How we plowed the field with the hillside plow
So steep and rough I don't know how
We did it so well, but then you see
We were full of life, this brother and me
How we broke the oxen calves you know
Dick and Lion yes and not so slow
When hitched to the cart that father made
We drove o'er hills and thru the glade
Gathering the walnuts to have in store
When winter was howling and north winds roar
Or filling the apple bins, oh what a treat
Rome Beauty and Rambo, and others, som sweet
The Bell-flower the Russet and peach butter too
And home-made sorghum, oh yes 'tis true
In this cheerful home 'twas happy then
Daniel and Deborah's children ten
Ten did I say, but listen, ah! me
We were all together but once you see
When Frankie lay there in death so cold
And Elsie sweet babe just twelve days old
And sister Ida with her little babe
Came home when we laid brother Frank in his grave
It almost seemed death's valley to me
But God knew best and [nuermus] not we
My long lost brother O say can it be
I shall meet you there by the Crystal Sea
I shall know you there dear brother [missed]
In that haven of rest, where there is no time
And onward and upward as ages shall roll
We'll traverse the heavens, the home of the soul
An unbroken family, God grant we shall be
Through out never ending eternity
*When the church yard at Mt. Hermon was built about 1875 father carved the letter D on bord of fence, and said if he should die he wanted to be buried near there, brother was buried near that spot.
