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The Magic Name

Improvement Era, vol. 20, no. 5, March 1917

Smith, Andrew K.

The Magic Name

(To ray Mother, September 6, 1916)

There is a simple name, two magic syllables, The sesame to fondest memories, That takes me back to childhood's fairyland, And strikes those chords of sweetest melodies.

Across my fevered brain it flashes fervently; When I in heat of life's grim battle fall, Or, hungry on life's pathway, drag my heavy cross, The magic name, sou? -filling, I recall.

Or when Satanas leads me to his haughty heights, And bids me gaze upon his wealth untold, And barters for my spirit soul his mortal realm, It pleads with me, "Eternal wealth you hold."

What is this name that takes me back to home again, And fills my longing soul with music sweet; That warns me ere I leap to worldly misery, And cools my brow in life's great battle's heat?

the name of her to whom I owe my life, It is Who offered her's to give it to her child, But lived to carve upon its life her mem'ry dear, The name is Mother, loving, gentle, mild. Andrew K. Smith.