Tuesday, December 12, 2023

A letter my grandfather sent to my great aunt.

 

                                            Meadow, N D

                                             March 7, 1901

Johanna Kongslie

We must not hope to be mowers

And to gather the ripe golden ears

Unless we have first been the sowers

And watered the flowers with tears. 

It is not just as we take it

This wonderful world of ours

Life's field will yield as we make it

A harvest of thorns or of flowers.


                                     Yours truly

                                      Thorvald Kongslie




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