A MEMORIAL TRIBUTE
TO
MERCEDES OWENS MOUTON
TIMOTHY OWENS
OPHELIA DANIEL OWENS
TONI DENICE TRAYLOR
ELEANOR OWENS ELLIS
TATUMN DIOR LOTT
ANTHONY BLAIR AKENS SR.
STILL, STILL WITH THEE
STILL, STILL WITH THEE, WHEN PURPLE MORNING BREAKETH,
WHEN THE BIRD WAKETH AND THE SHADOWS FLEE;
FAIRER THAN MORNING,LOVELIER THAN DAYLIGHT,
DAWNS THE SWEET CONSCIOUSNESS, I AM WITH THEE!
ALONE WITH THEE, AMID THE MYSTICAL SHADOWS,
THE SOLEMN HUSH OF NATURE NEWLY BORN;
ALONE WITH THEE, IN BREATHLESS ADORATION,
IN THE CALM DEW AND FRESHNESS OF THE MORN.
STILL, STILL WITH THEE, AS TO EACH NEW BORN MORNING
A FRESH AND SOLEMN SPLENDER STILL IS GIVEN,
SO DOTH THIS BLESSED CONSCIOUSNESS AWAKENING,
BREATHE, EACH DAY, NEARNESS UNTO THEE AND HEAVEN.
WHEN SINKS THE SOUL, SUBDUED BY TOIL, TO SLUMBER,
ITS CLOSING EYE LOOKS UP TO THEE IN PRAYER;
SWEET THE REPOSE BENEATH THY WINGS O'ERSHADING,
BUT SWEETER STILL TO WAKE AND FIND THEE THERE.
SO SHALL IT BE AT LAST, IN THAT BRIGHT MORNING
WHEN THE SOUL WAKETH AND LIFE'S SHADOWS FLEE;
OH, IN THAT HOUR FAIRER THAN DAYLIGHT DAWNING,
SHALL RISE THE GLORIOUS THOUGHT, I AM WITH THEE!
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE
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