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From: "Lisa Perry" <>
Subject: [MOMONROE] NBC: Kirtley
Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 19:49:44 -0400

Undated poem; original source unknown. Extracted from the newspaper
article collection started in 1879 by Mrs. Nannie Brown of Madison,
Missouri.



IN MEMORY OF LITTLE EVA KIRTLEY.



"I had a little cheerer girl of scarcely eight years old,

Her face, the picture was of joy,

Her hair like strands of gold,

Her eyes were blue and full of love,

And sparkled with delight

As beautious as the stars above,

As radiant and as bright.



But sickness came, pale grew her face,

And in her lustrious eye;

Life's little pulse were growing weak,

My cheerer girl must die.

I looked again, she lay so still,

Her eyes were closed in death,

She's freed from all her earthly ills,

With that last struggling breath.



We stood around her little couch

To sooth her aching pain,

Until at last the hand of death

Came forth and not in vain;

For now her little form is laid

Beneath the hillside sod,

Beneath an oak tree's growing shade,

Her spirit rests with God."



-- PAPA





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