Shelby County TN Archives News.....To My Son's Scrap-Book March 23, 1873 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/tn/tnfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Bill Boggess william-boggess@webtv.net April 16, 2006, 8:06 am DAILY ARKANSAS GAZETTE March 23, 1873 (revision; 04/10/06)   Copy courtes of Butler Center For Arkansas Studies, Little Rock DAILY ARKANSAS GAZETTE Little Rock, Arkansas, Sunday, March 23, 1873 , Front Page, column1 ---------------          TO MY SON'S SCRAP-BOOK By: Fannie Borland MOORES (1848AR-1879TN) Day by day, with tender care,       I add a picture here and there; This place a flower, and there a bird,     Whose songs no mortal ears have heard; Yet trust, as time to knowledge flies,       These flowers shall bloom for thy sweet eyes; And as thy happy manhood bears,       These birds make music for thine ears And from death and eternity       Recall thy mother's love to thee. There's not a picture here I place       But takes somewhat of thine own grace, And says     His eyes may seldom look       Upon the work of this poor book -- Yet when they do, they shall not see       Alone the bird, or beast, or tree; But looking through their fragile art       Shall rest upon his mother's heart -- Shall see what no strange eyes could see     By day and night the thought of thee. And when the world grows large --- and joy       And life, are calling to my boy; And love more outward fair than mine       Shall lead him to her happy shrine; And I, beneath the turf of years,       Unwreathed by flowers, unwept by tears, Turn to this page my hand has made,       These loves shall die, these hopes shall fade, These joys decay, these triumphs fall --       Thy mother's love outlives them all.                     -------<>------- Additional Comments: Son George Brland Moores was three and one half years old when poem was published. Fanny's first poem published when at age twelve years, in The Arkansas Gazette. Her most famous was The Dead Confederacy, published in London's Cosmopolitan 21 Dec 1871. Son George Borland Moores, born November 1869 in Memphis, found following her yellow fever death of 23 Aug 1879 with her half-brother, Harold Bourland (Borland), Faulkner county, AR in 1880 census. Fanny was first daughter of Mary Isabel Melbourne and U S Senator Solon Borland, M D, --- named in honor of his aunt who raised him and her half-brother during their early years at Suffolk, VA, She was born in Little Rock, September 1848 upon Major Borland's return from fighting, being captured, escaping and helping in the capture of Mexico City, of the Mexican-American War, --- after appointed and elected to the United States Senate where he served until President Polk appointed him "Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary" to Central America March 1853, turning down Governorship of New Mexico territory. Obituary: Fanny's burial site is unknown to us. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/tn/shelby/newspapers/tomysons6nw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/tnfiles/ File size: 3.5 Kb