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June 29, 2011
Blogger wasn't working last night, so here's the post for, well, June 29, 2011:  I found this little old book of poetry in a tiny bookstore at Cannon Beach last weekend.  The book is called Riley, Songs O'Cheer and I wanted to share this poem since it's not quite summer yet:


..."Sigh and sigh! and sigh and sigh!
   Never end of sighing;
Rain and rain for our reply--
   Hopes half-drowned and dying;
Peering through the window-pane,
   Naught but endless raining--
Endless sighing, and, as vain,
   Endlessly complaining.

Shine and shine! and shine and shine!
   Ah! to-day the splendor!--
All this glory yours and mine--
   God! but God is tender!
We to sigh instead of sing,
   Yesterday, in sorrow,
While the Lord was fashioning
   This for our To-morrow!"

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