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these bright autumn days
painful in their brightness.
Only God's love can comfort
you & I know you will turn to Him. By & [?] happy
memories of that short
sweet life will come to
soothe the grief + bring[?] a
[?] of thankfulness for
the years that you were
made happy by his presence
but now I know only
the emptiness of the place
he occupied + the loss of
the merry[?] voice fills you
with sorrow + desolation.
How well I shall always