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Title: Clear Crystals

Author: Clara M. Beede

Release Date: February 28, 2005 [EBook #15209]

Language: English

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CLEAR CRYSTALS

_by_
Clara M. Beede

The Press of Flozari, Pegasus Studios
Box 5804, Cleveland, 1, Ohio
1946

_Dedicated to
OLNEY, RUSSELL Jr., WILLIAM, ELLWOOD,
And All Our Soldier Boys_

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We are grateful for permission to include certain poems which were
first published in Reflections; Chipmunk; Scimitar and Song: Whispers;
Calaveras Californian; Calaveras Prospect; Sunshine and Rain; Brown
Plumes; Tulsa Tribune; Sonnets from Americanese: Fireside Chatter;
Song and Story; The Arc; United We Sing; The Authors of Tomorrow;
Garret, and Golden Leaves.

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OTHER TORCHBEARER CHAPBOOKS

by

CLARA M. BEEDE

45: Brown Plumes
51: More Brown Plumes
63: Sunshine and Rain
73: Clear Crystals (Second Printing)
88: Only Pebbles
94: Golden Leaves
98: Sail High Above

MOTHER'S PRAYER

For this new day, our Father, we give thee thanks.
Thou hast blessed us with rest for our bodies,
The glories of a new day are upon us, a gift from above.
Let the light from heaven penetrate our souls,
and may this be the best of our lives, we pray.
Remember those less fortunate, dear Father,
May some messenger of thine bring joy to their hearts today.
Forbid we should shirk any duty coming our way,
for we are thy servants and desire to do thy will.
Our Dear Father thou hast blessed us with many dear ones.
I pray thy blessing upon each one, especially our soldier boys
That they may heed thy voice and follow thee
as their great and true leader. Forbid, dear Lord, that any one
of them be lost from the way in his search for the light.
Go before them and let light from above
make their pathway bright. Come into their hearts
and give them the peace that no man can gi