Viewing page 162 of 202

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

Lyrics of Love and Laughter

Slight was the thing I bought,
Small was the debt I thought,
Poor was the loan at best - 
God ! but the interest !

ON THE 
DEDICATION OF DOROTHY HALL.

TUSKEGEE, ALA., APRIL 22, 1901.

NOT to the midnight of the gloomy past,
Do we revert to-day; we look upon
The golden present and the future vast
Whose vistas show us visions of the dawn.

Nor shall the sorrows of departed years
The sweetness of our tranquil souls annoy,
The sunshine of our hopes dispels the tears,
And clears our eyes to see this later joy.

Not ever in the years that God hath given
Have we gone friendless down the thorny way,
Always the clouds of pregnant black were riven
By flashes from His own eternal day.
142