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From: Ruth Barton< >
Subject: Re: [CEMETERY-L] Ancestor Poem
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1998 18:06:44 -0400


>Can anyone tell me what the poem that they were putting on the laminated 3x5
>index cards for others to learn of their existance was. I seemed to have
>missed it while I was on vacation.???

Here it is:

Dear Ancestor

Your tombstone stands among the rest~ Neglected and alone.

The name and date are chiseled out On polished, marbled stone.

It reaches out to all who care; It is too late to mourn.

You did not know that I exist ; You died and I was born.

Yet each of us are cells of you ; In flesh, in blood, in bone.

Our blood contracts and beats a ;Entirely not our own.

Dear Ancestor, the place you filled; One hundred years ago

Spreads out among the ones you left Who would have loved you so.

I wonder if you lived and loved, I wonder if you knew

That someday I would find this spot,

And come to visit you.

Author Unknown

Ruth (HOUGHTON) BARTON
Westminster,Vermont, USA

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