LOVE YOUR DAYS

 

Thank you Lord for the Night:

To slow down and sleep

To the home-fires keep

With Ewe and “little sheep.”

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Thank you Lord for the Morn:

To throw-back, make the sheet

For breakfast to eat

For shoes for the feet

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Thank you Lord for the Noon:

For strength to work till then

For work of hammer or pen

For corn gathered in the bin

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Thank you Lord for the “Tardes”

For warmth in winter’s sun

For “game” from rod and gun

For labor almost run

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Thank you Lord for the Even:

For the ceasing to roam

For the walk toward home

For the evening’s gloam.

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And if there is a time I’ve forgotten,

Please don’t think me “rotten,”

‘Cause I love life and love all your days,

Broken up in hourly ways – all Praise!

– eab, 1/19/06