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[Newspaper clipping]
Around the Bend.
Dead? No, don't speak of him that
way!
Don't think of him as dead!
He's only just gone on a piece,
A little way ahead.

He's travelling still the same highway
THat he, with us, has trod;
Merely out-distanced us a bit,
Upon the road to God.

Dead? Never with a thought like that!
The smallest moment spend.
He's simply gone beyond our sight;
He's just around the bend!
Ida M. Thomas.

[Clipping partly hidden, title ends in "Oaks." Visible portion reads:]

...by hid reef or loud sea wall;
They bear the weeds, who bore the leaf of old,
Time-rotten and tide-ridden are they all
Save one in twenty acres of ba[ck?] wold
- Eric Chilman