Happy October

      October First

      Beautiful child, may'st thou soar above,

      A warbling cherub of joy and love;

      A drop on eternity's mighty sea,

      A blossom of life's immortal tree;

      Floating, flowering forevermore,

      In the blessed light of the golden shore.

      And as I gaze on thy sinless bloom

      And thy radiant face, they dispel my gloom;

      I feel He will keep thee undefiled,

      And His love protect my beautiful child.

-- W. A. H. Sigourney

                                 

From A Mother's Year.  compiled by Helen Russ Stough.

New York:  Fleming H. Revell Co., 1905.