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ON RECORD by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON

First Line: I WOULD NOT BRING A BABY FACE
Last Line: LIFE'S SCARS, FOR GOD HIMSELF TO SEE!
Subject(s): DEATH; FACES; GOD; LIFE; SCARS; DEAD, THE;
I WOULD not bring a baby face
Smooth and unscarred, to God on high,
And say, "Hereon you find no trace
Of living, now I come to die."

No, battered up and down the ways,
I give Him back this proof of me;
Record of keen, tumultuous days,
Life's scars, for God Himself to see!



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