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Frederick
George Scott
COLLECTED
POEMS
‘Little
Friend’s’ Grave
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Build a house for ‘Little Friend,’
Underneath the sunniest
grass,
In a place where birds’ songs blend
On the breezes as they pass.
Dig it not with sorrow’s spade,
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Use
no sharp-edged tools of pain,
Nothing there must cast a shade,
Nothing there must leave
a stain.
Build the walls of hope and joy,
Gladsome as the flowers
and trees,
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Else
the little merry boy
Will not rest in it at ease.
Bring no torch or other light,
As though darkness could
be there,
For a soul so pure and bright
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give radiance everywhere.
Build the roof of faith and love,
Pillared on foundations
deep,
That the rain of tears above
May not mar his happy
sleep.
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Make no windows, as though he
Needed peep-holes to the
skies,
For the vast Eternity
Now is open to his eyes.
Build no staircase for his feet,
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Make
no door-way in the wall,
For he treads the golden street
Where the Christ is all
in all.
Only let the cross be set
Upright in the hallowed
ground,
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Lest
the stricken heart forget
Where the cure of grief
is found. [Page 31]
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