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Emancipation

"Why be afraid of death, as tho' your life were breath
Death but anoints your eyes with clay

O glad surprise!

Why should you be forlorn? Death only husks the corn
Why should you fear to meet the thresher of the wheat
Is sleep a thing to dread? yet sleeping you are dead,
Till you awake & rise - here or beyond the skies.
Why not, with happy shout - run home when school is out
The dear ones left behind! Oh! foolish one & blind
A day and you will meet, a night & you will greet
This is the Death of deaths, to breathe away a breath,
And know the end of strife & taste the breathless life,
A joy without a fear & smile without a tear
And work nor care to rest & find the last the best."

After a pleasant meeting of two hours
and a social half hour before tea
We adjourned to Sunnyside the
house of Albina Stabler and Mary Osborne

8.28.1896 at 8pm.

Sarah E Stabler
Sec

18

Emancipation

"Why be afraid of death as tho' your life were breath
Death but anoints your eyes with clay
O glad our pride
Why should you be forlorn? Death only husks the corn
Why should you fear to meet the thresher of the wheat
Is sleep a thing to dread yet sleeping you are dead,
Till you awake arise here or be you beyond the skies.
Why not with happy shout run home when school is out
The dear ones left behind. Oh foolish one and blind
a day and you will meet a night and you will greet
This is the death of deaths to breathe away a breath,
And know the end of strife and taste the breathless
A joy without a fear and smile without a tear
And work nor care to rest and find the last the best."
After a pleasant meeting of two hours
and a social half hour before tea
We adjourned to Sunnyside the
house of Albina Stabler and Mary O Hearn

8.28.1896 at 8pm.

Sarah E Stabler
Sec