FROM DEPTHS UNKNOWN: DEDICATORY by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS

I do not seek for worldly fame,
I only wish to write my name
And live within thy heart,
That children and grandchildren may
Walk with me still along life's way
Long after I depart;

That future generations may
Take up the book and sometimes say
His soul lives with us yet,
For we walk with him day by day
And ponder truth along the way—
The heart doth not forget.

'Tis not in mausoleum stones
Wherein doth lie man's sacred bones
That memory shall live;
Not in accumulated gold,
Worldly success with wealth untold,
'Tis what man's soul doth give.

If thou shouldst scan these pages o'er
And some thought lead through Heaven's door
And thou shouldst not depart,
Then I shall not have lived in vain
For in Christ's love I live again
Within thy pulsing heart.

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