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truthmothers and dads.My MothermembtespeciaEd Note Franklin V Martin, the Sage of Sulphur Draw, wrote the tollowing poem for Mother’s Day in ini') while a senior in Honey Grove High School Fifty-eight years later we reprint it on Mother s Day 1973).MY MOTHER By FRANKLIN Y. MARTIN\v I look through the shadowyHalls of the Fast.Into the maze of Forgotten Days. One vision alone shall foreverOne picture alone forever stays -one lace a face that abides allothers: Mv Mother's.I see a mystic fairyland.Where flowers in a garden grow;1 see a sweet faced fairy stand\inid them, she herself as grand \s any that beside her blow:Ms MotherI see her in the Long Ago. Consoling me, her little boy Who brings to her his childishW IH\ marble lost, a broken toy.The Hush ot couth was in her face. And never tresses shone moretanNow plundering Time has kept hispace\nd Winter's frost is in her hair.But now. as then, the boy stillgropesTo her with woeful themes: Not marbles any more.hopesbutrepreseNot tovs, but broken dreamsAs onward to the west I plod. Toward Eternity and Rest.My fervent wish is that my God Will through the years heed myrequest.Will grant one boon — of all the best:Mv Mother.long hlt;deadlin will pul the enlt; schoolHow a particu the sptcularlvLetters to the(Note Lester Gregg, former basketball coach here many years ago. and widely loved and respected In main of his lormer players and students, is critically ill in a convalescent home in Alvin. Texas Mrs. Gregg recently wrote Bob Crawley asking that some of hisLamesa friends write to him during this trying time His address is Lester'Gregg. 400 West George, Alvin. Texas 77511 — Someexcerpts of Mrs. Gregg s letterfollow 1The dlt; thee kLeslcannot In sonbut bobe anand II be IDear Bob:I am writing and need a favor of you. Mr Gregg had a severe cerebral thrombosis Feb. 4 and a marked coronary insufficiency thatfollowed has resulted in a severe hemiphegia of the left sidedeal Lame: lriend time t happs thru* IThathis k teaehiHe was in .lohn Sealy at Galveston for a month and has been here in Alvin for the past six weeks.MostMildr400 W Alvin
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Lamesa Press Reporter
Lamesa, Texas, US
Sun, May 13, 1973
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