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Subject: Re: Thought You Might Find This Interesting
Date: Thu, 09 Dec 1999 09:09:46 -0800

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>Pass it on.
>Linda
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>"" wrote:
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>> This is really cute. Mind if I pass it on?
>> Donna
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>> At 08:38 PM 12/8/99 -0500, wrote:
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>> >> Twas The Day Before Yesterday
>> >>
>> >> TWAS the day before yesterday and all through the branches,
>> >> NOT a name to be found, none of my ancestors.
>> >>
>> >> THE Journals and Bibles were dusty and worn,
>> >> WHY should we care, these kinfolk are gone.
>> >>
>> >> THE pictures of children and family, long ago dead,
>> >> ARE scattered, crinkled, and crammed under beds.
>> >>
>> >> DAD in his chair, and I with a book,
>> >> HAD just settled back to give the TV a look.
>> >>
>> >> WHEN out on the street there arose such a clatter,
>> >> I sprang to my feet to see what was the matter.
>> >>
>> >> ON the way to the window I tripped with a crash,
>> >> I tore open the curtains and looked through the glass.
>> >>
>> >> THE sun in the sky was nowhere in sight,
>> >> THE clouds were so gray, it could have been night.
>> >>
>> >> WHEN what to my wondering eyes should appear,
>> >> THE Mailman with packages, letters and cards of good cheer.
>> >>
>> >> THE driver was grumbling while sorting his letters,
>> >> I knew in a moment, things had to get better.
>> >>
>> >> THE size of one letter stood out from them all,
>> >> A distant cousin was asking about family, one and all.
>> >>
>> >> THE names of Grandpa and Grandma, Great Grandparents all,
>> >> NEXT came my Father, my Brother, and Uncle Paul.
>> >>
>> >> FROM cousins and uncles to aunts and nephews,
>> >> NIECES and in-laws, just to name a few.
>> >>
>> >> SO through the many journals and photos, and stuff I possessed,
>> >> MY search for my ancestors slowly progressed.
>> >>
>> >> WHILE up the family tree I gradually climbed,
>> >> MY ancestors names, I was seeking to find.
>> >>
>> >> UPON that tree I have carved many a name,
>> >> THE branches of which, will never be the same.
>> >>
>> >> THE tree is now filled with many I've found,
>> >> BUT in the search for others, now I am bound.
>> >>
>> >> THE ancestors whose names, I have written with love,
>> >> THE Lord has gathered to take to His Father above.
>> >>
>> >> WITH so many names yet to be carved on that tree,
>> >> I have little time to waste on games and TV.
>> >>
>> >> GATHERING names, photos, histories and places,
>> >> REQUIRES a lot of love, patience, and God's good graces.
>> >>
>> >> SOME were Farmers, Soldiers & such, Mothers & Fathers
>> >> who struggled much.
>> >> SOME were Settlers, who traveled far, some Adventures,
>> >> who followed the stars.
>> >>
>> >> SOME were rich, but most were poor, they came by ship,
>> >> seeking more.
>> >> SOME died young, others old, many their stories yet untold.
>> >>
>> >> I cried when I thought of those brothers and sisters,
>> >> FOR I am who I am, thanks to my ancestors.
>> >>
>> >> MY family is but one branch on the Tree of Life,
>> >> A tree that grew strong through toil and strife.
>> >>
>> >> ALONE, I'm just a bare twig or a stub,
>> >> TOGETHER we build a Family Tree of Love
>> >
>> >
>> >
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