For Christmas my grandmother gave me the book, Early Moon, a compilation of poems by Carl Sandburg. Inside, written on a yellowed page, I found this quaint inscription in faded ink:
Dear Ray,
"We give all we have to give
That the name may live longer than the man.
We live only for glory
To gild our lives for a moment's span.
Yet we who forget so soon
The loveliness of a scarlet leaf,
Find it strange that trees should wait
So long, for glory that is so brief."
S. Bateman
May the poems in this book give you joy - - - as much pleasures as they can.
For you have given me much Joy in our friendship.
Here's luck,
G. Lenor Arnold
"Kansas"
1931
3 comments:
Isn't it wonderful to recieve an old book with writing in it? I love finding treasured little notes inside the browned pages of decades weathered book.
superb!:)
writing in books is the best art.
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