Excerpted from
by Alma Calder.
(A delightful tale of rural life in the 19th-century.)
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&
shared for Thanksgiving Day:
" For friends and for friendship, for health and for home,
We thank thee Our Father, wherever we roam.
We thank thee for hunger, which gives food a zest;
We thank thee for labor and bless thee for rest.
"The lakes and the rivers have blessings in store,
The field and the forest will each day yield more.
Give strength, we beseech thee, give wisdom and power,
To aid in each duty and gladden each hour.
" We thank thee for pleasures, for freedom from sin,
For love that makes us with the whole world akin;
We bless thee for guiding us safely this day ;
We trust thee to-night, and we trust thee alway."
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