In Loving Memory

I found this poem that makes me think of my dear Pappaw.  It is from the book, Verses of Virtue: The Poetry and Prose of Christian Womanhood, compiled and edited by Elizabeth Beall Phillips.

Yesterdays With You

Today is blest, indeed --
Yet it is but a day;
I, with my friendly greed,
Hide memories away.
And that is why I say
I would old times were new,
Then I would trade Today
For Yesterdays with you.

Old friend, the dreams we had!
The songs we loved to hear!
Half gaily and half sad
Today they linger near.
Wherever I may go,
Whatever I may do,
They have a luring glow --
Those Yesterdays with you.

The waking world at dawn,
When glory pearled the skies --
The roads that lured us on
With goals that charmed our eyes;
The twilight with its hush
When bird calls faltered through --
What recollections rush
From Yesterdays with you!

Tomorrows reach away,
The world is very wide,
The Task-man of Today
Will never be denied,
But in the ruck and stress
Their skies gleam ever blue,
They quiet me, and bless --
My yesterdays with you.

With memory's magic art
I make Time thread its way
Down highways of the heart
To each fair yesterday --
And that is why I pray
Old times may be made new,
For I would trade Today
For Yesterdays with you.
~ Wilbur D. Nesbit

I am deeply grateful for all of the wonderful memories Pappaw left with me.  I look forward to seeing him again -- one day.

posted by Abby