{"id":19,"date":"2022-09-13T17:29:12","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T17:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lettersbylaird.com\/?page_id=19"},"modified":"2022-10-31T04:22:11","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T04:22:11","slug":"life-songs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lettersbylaird.com\/index.php\/life-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&lt;==&gt;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&lt;==&gt;<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color\" style=\"color:#136894;font-size:10px\"><strong>A One Way Track<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color\" style=\"color:#136894;font-size:10px\">&lt;-><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color\" style=\"color:#136894;font-size:10px\"><strong>This train of life is on a one way track,<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color\" style=\"color:#136894;font-size:10px\"><strong>there\u2019s no way to take it back.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color\" style=\"color:#136894;font-size:10px\">~~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color\" style=\"color:#136894;font-size:10px\"><strong>There are things I\u2019ve done,<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color\" style=\"color:#136894;font-size:10px\"><strong>there are things I\u2019ve not.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color\" style=\"color:#136894;font-size:10px\"><strong>Today is the only day I\u2019ve got.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color\" style=\"color:#136894;font-size:10px\"><strong>~~<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color\" style=\"color:#136894;font-size:10px\"><strong>It\u2019s the day to laugh, it\u2019s the day to sing.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color\" style=\"color:#136894;font-size:10px\"><strong>I\u2019ll make the most of what this day may<\/strong> [will] <strong>bring.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color\" style=\"color:#136894;font-size:10px\">&lt;-><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color\" style=\"color:#136894;font-size:10px\"><strong>Laird Fetzer Hamblin<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color\" style=\"color:#136894;font-size:10px\">&lt;&#8211;><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color\" style=\"color:#b04617\">&lt;==><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color\" style=\"color:#b04617;font-size:10px\"><strong>Beauty Young, Beauty Old<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color\" style=\"color:#b04617;font-size:10px\">&lt;-&gt;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color\" style=\"color:#b04617;font-size:10px\"><strong>I love my wrinkles and my bumps.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color\" style=\"color:#b04617;font-size:10px\"><strong>Like counting rings, on old tree stumps,<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color\" style=\"color:#b04617;font-size:10px\"><strong>with every line, a story\u2019s told.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color\" style=\"color:#b04617;font-size:10px\"><strong>There\u2019s beauty young, there&#8217;s beauty old.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color\" style=\"color:#b04617;font-size:10px\"><strong>Life, is sometimes plentiful,<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color\" style=\"color:#b04617;font-size:10px\"><strong> life, is sometimes lean.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color\" style=\"color:#b04617;font-size:10px\"><strong>Mostly, life, is somewhere, in between.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color\" style=\"color:#b04617;font-size:10px\"><strong>What matters, isn&#8217;t an elegant home,<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color\" style=\"color:#b04617;font-size:10px\"><strong>or<\/strong> <strong>any thing I own.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color\" style=\"color:#b04617;font-size:10px\"><strong>It&#8217;s precious seeds of happiness, I\u2019ve found,<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color\" style=\"color:#b04617;font-size:10px\"><strong>and I have sown.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color\" style=\"color:#b04617;font-size:10px\"><strong>It&#8217;s not great applause, grand acclaim, or<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color\" style=\"color:#b04617;font-size:10px\"><strong>how long, on Earth, I live.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color\" style=\"color:#b04617;font-size:10px\"><strong>It&#8217;s the hope I feel, and the love I give.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color\" style=\"color:#b04617;font-size:10px\"><strong>This life, is a moment, in a journey,<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color\" style=\"color:#b04617;font-size:10px\"><strong>with no<\/strong> <strong>beginning and no end.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color\" style=\"color:#b04617;font-size:10px\"><strong>It\u2019s important how, I live, each day, and if,<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color\" style=\"color:#b04617;font-size:10px\"><strong>I<\/strong> <strong>am a friend.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color\" style=\"color:#b04617;font-size:10px\">~~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color\" style=\"color:#b04617;font-size:10px\"><strong>Laird Fetzer Hamblin<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color\" style=\"color:#b04617;font-size:10px\">&lt;&#8211;><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color\" style=\"color:#17b00e;font-size:10px\"><strong>Things I&#8217;ve Gathered Up<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color\" style=\"color:#17b00e;font-size:10px\">&lt;-><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color\" style=\"color:#17b00e;font-size:10px\"><strong>These many things I gather up, now in piles lie,<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color\" style=\"color:#17b00e;font-size:10px\"><strong>Held in silent stillness, they await the day I die.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color\" style=\"color:#17b00e;font-size:10px\"><strong>Where will go these treasures, I secure with all my might?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color\" style=\"color:#17b00e;font-size:10px\"><strong>They\u2019ll go to another with my passing in the night.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color\" style=\"color:#17b00e;font-size:10px\"><strong>These things I now presume to be of such great worth,<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color\" style=\"color:#17b00e;font-size:10px\"><strong>will soon return again, to be the elements of Earth.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color\" style=\"color:#17b00e;font-size:10px\">~~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color\" style=\"color:#17b00e;font-size:10px\"><strong>Laird Fetzer Hamblin<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color\" style=\"color:#17b00e;font-size:10px\">&lt;&#8211;><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;==&gt; &lt;==&gt; A One Way Track &lt;-> This train of life is on a one way track, there\u2019s no way to take it back. ~~&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" 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