BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE.
If you have a grey-haired mother In the homestead far away, Sit down and write that letter
You put off day by day. Don’t wait until her tired steps Reach heaven’s pearly gate, But tell her that you care for her, Before it is Too Late. Those tender words unspoken, That message never sent, Makes her burden heavier, Which some day you’ll repent. It only takes one moment Those few words to translate, So get your pen and hurry, Before it is Too Late. Her seeds of life are withering, Her toilsome days are past, She has done her duty nobly, With her back unto the mast. So take from me this sound advice And no longer hesitate, But send that line to mother, Before it is Too Late.
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Erk's Work, 1 February 1941, Page 36
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134BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE. Erk's Work, 1 February 1941, Page 36
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