Sunday, February 14, 2010

STORY Fatherhood by Edgar Guest

Story title: Fatherhood 
by Edgar Guest

Someday the world will need a man
of courage in a time of doubt,
And somewhere as a little boy,
that future hero plays about.
Within some humble home, no doubt,
that instrument of greater things
No climbs upon his father's knee
of to his mother's garments clings.
And when shall do God's mission here
may be your little boy or mine.

Long years of preparation mark
the pathway for the splendid souls,
And generations live and die
and seem no nearer to their goals.
And yet the purpose of it all,
the fleeting pleasure and the woe,

The laughter and the grief of life
that all who come to earth must know
May be to pave the way for one
one man to serve the Will Divine,
And it is possible that he may be 
your little boy or mine.

Someday the world will need a man!
I stand beside his cot at night
And wonder if I'm teaching him,
as best I can, to know the right.
I am the father of a boy
his life is mine to make or mar
For he no better can become
than what my daily teaching are;
There will be need for someone great
I will not falter from the line
The man that is to serve the world
may be that little boy of mine.

Perhaps your boy or mine may not
ascend the lofty heights of fame;
The orders for their births are hid.
We know not why to earth they came;
Yet in some little bed tonight
the great man of tomorrow sleeps
And only He who sent him here,
the secret of His purpose keeps.
As fathers then our care is this
to keep the Great Design.
The man the world shall need someday
may be your little boy or mine.

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