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Title: Tales of early love. To sweethearts, wife, mother, native land, church, God
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: (Welburn, Drummond), b. 1818. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Nashville, Tenn., Printed for the author, Publishing house of the M. E. church, South
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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to twenty she was all my own, And I was hers despite fair Esthers bloom Or all the grandeur of proud Emeline. She was the last loved object that I laid On Gods pure altar-when his ministry Demanded my poor heart with all its powrs. Years after, when we both had long grown old, And childrens children stood around our knees, I trod the walks made sacred by her steps, Nor stopped until her fathers dwelling house Became the Mecca of my pilgrimage. I thought upon the Sabbaths when I sat Through the long prayer book service for her sake, And wished it longer, that my eyes might feast Upon her beauty through protracted hours. I strolled away to the old ivied church. So dear to her that I so long had loved, And dared to hope that with the glorified. Freed from all earthly taint, well meet again, ^ And pure-like angels, ever live, and love. ^ • ••••••«. i« Years passed, self-doomed to cold celibacy.When I would not permit myself to seeBewitching features or enchanting smiles; 2
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(18) SAKAH AT HOME. On Saturdavs, Avhen she could be at home, I to hex- mother took liglit merchandise That I might gaze on her fair daughters face.

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