Friday, October 23, 2015

Junkin Family Album - First Poem- Untitled Comments

Rating: 5.0

Love, Life and God, what little words they are,
Yet vastly great, the objects they define,
The last, though least, the greatest is by far,
We live, we love, as now our days decline
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Darwin Henry Beuning
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Sylvia Frances Chan 10 August 2021

Most beautiful Antique poem.5 Stars for the poet JB and also for the poet Hank! Thank you so much for sharing this antique poem, Hank!

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Cowboy Ron Williams 10 August 2021

How did you obtain this little book, Hank?

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Michael Walker 19 September 2019

I would fear being banished 'where there is eternal strife'. I want better than that.

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Bri Edwards 20 April 2017

By though least, do you mean in # OF LETTERS USED TO SPELL 'God'? OK, did J.B. mean..... To think of these my lovely, lovely thine, And pray and pray again, wher, er you be........ were you using a tablet to type, as I am now? ......................to what/who does thine refers? And wher, er .....? [Thanks for Poet's Notes. J.B. Jeb Bush? ] I should have read it 1st. Or Jeb Beuning? bri :)

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Kim Barney 23 October 2015

This is a wonderful poem from the 1800's. You were indeed fortunate to come across this little book in the manner that you did. It is a treasure, a one-of-a-kind find.

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Darwin Henry Beuning

Darwin Henry Beuning

Melrose, Minnesota
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