Hunt Co., TX - Moments of Reflection, By Joe W. McKee,
Celeste, Texas
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Moments of Reflection
By Joe W. McKee

It seems but a day since I was a boy,
Enjoying my childish fun.
But today I see Old Father Time
Marking up Number Seventy-One.
He did not say just how many more,
For this he would not reveal
He, you see, is a funny old man
In that he keeps something concealed.
Now as I look back through life's mystic book,
I find some things amiss.
But I hope the conductor who takes my fare
Will overlook all this.
Life to us all is like a great book filled with mysteries
Both great and small
And only the Infinite in the world to come
Can read and know them all.
Some men look to the book of life
For wealth and worldly fame,
While other men find in the same old book
Very like of this earth's gain....

(August 22, 1952, The Celeste Courier)