"Velle Bene Facere"

To My Father

Reuben Curtis

"How oft have I,
A little child, hearkened my father's voice
Preaching the Word ...
Again I see those circling, eager faces;
I hear once more the solemn -- urging words
That tell the things of God in simple phrase;
Again the deep -- voiced, reverent prayer ascends,
Bringing to the still summer afternoon
A sense of the eternal. As he preached
He lived; unselfish, famelessly heroic."