Rockdale County GaArchives Obituaries.....Swann, Carl  1904
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Conyers Weekly Banner, March 4, 1904 
Tribute to Carl Swann
By his Sunday School Teacher

     One from our midst has gone, one that was always in his place. He was such 
a bright, promising young man and we all learned to love him. And now to the 
bereaved ones:
     Your loving son, brother and friend I know is dead. All I can say to you 
in response, sorrowing with you but with utter faith and hope in Heaven, is be 
comforted. God is his own interpreter, and he will make it plain. Think your 
loving Brother's life was a blessed reality, not a dream, a vision, as in the 
fate of many, many yearning lives. So a changeless verity your loving Brother 
remains, only for a while separated from you for some glorious reason of God's 
own. In the infinite tenderness of His care he remains forever at his best and 
sweetest. Nay, you must sorrow not, unless, indeed, you sorrow for the 
brotherless ones who may not look to find in Heaven oven the brother denied 
them here.

O weep not that he, for the rapture of Heaven,
Hath fled, to the clime of content and accord.
Mourn not that to him the white garment is given.
For blessed are they who die in the Lord.
Well, well, dost know that the hearts of brother.
But still rejoice that he's an angel, above.
Let me come in where you sit weeping- aye,
Let me who has a brother to die
Weep with you far the one's love I knew something of.
The loving arms that slowly, slowly loosed.
The pressure 'round your neck; the lips you 
Used to kiss, such arms, such lips I knew,
May I not come in and weep with you.
Fain would I be of service, say something,
Between the tears, that would be comforting.
As you are now it will soon be I
For my brother is yet to die.


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