[RosieCotton]

While we're in poem posting mode...this is an old traditional song that my parents used to sing to us as a lullaby. It has taken on a whole new meaning in the past few months...I'd never really reflected on the lyrics before.

FARTHER ALONG

Tempted and tried we're oft' made to wonder
Why it should be thus all the day long
While there are others living about us
Never molested, though in the wrong

Farther along we'll know more about it
Farther along we'll understand why
Cheer up my brother live in the sunshine
We'll understand it all by and by

When death has come and taken our loved ones
Leaving our homes so lonely and drear
Then do we wonder how others prosper
Living so wicked year after year

Farther along we'll know more about it
Farther along we'll understand why
Cheer up my brother live in the sunshine
We'll understand it all by and by

[Corin Stormhands]

Love that one. Have you heard the "Trio" album by Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt? I think you'd like it. (it's several years old)

[RMDupree]

What a beautiful poem!!

[HairOfTheDog]

That is a nice poem Rosie!

I have to go for a wee bit.... then I will be back!