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    All That Matters
    All That Matters
    All That Matters
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    All That Matters

    By Edgar A. (Edgar Albert) Guest

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateApr 1, 2004
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      All That Matters - Edgar A. (Edgar Albert) Guest

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      Title: All That Matters

      Author: Edgar A. Guest

      Illustrator: Various

      Release Date: May 21, 2009 [EBook #28903]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ALL THAT MATTERS ***

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      All That Matters

      by

      EDGAR A. GUEST

      With Pictures

      by

      W. T. BENDA           M. L. BOWER

      F. X. LEYENDECKER

      F. C. YOHN              H. C. PITZ

      ROBERT E. JOHNSTON

      HARVEY EMRICH

      PRUETT CARTER

      THE REILLY & LEE CO.

      Chicago

      Printed in the United States of America

      Copyright, 1922

      by

      The Reilly & Lee Co.

      All Rights Reserved

      Illustrations Copyrighted, 1920, 1921, 1922

      by The International Magazine Company

      and reproduced by special

      arrangement with

      the Cosmopolitan Magazine

      Second Printing—August, 1922

      Third Printing—October, 1922

      All That Matters

      All That Matters

      From a painting by Frank X. Leyendecker.

      INDEX

      PoemPage

      Accomplished Care 66

      Afraid of His Dad 94

      All That Matters 9

      Boy and His Dad, A 36

      Boy's Ideal, The 30

      Bread and Gravy 38

      Bulb Planting Time 67

      Call, The 11

      Clinching the Bolt 50

      Common Touch, The 32

      Denial 72

      Effort 86

      Example 53

      Family Doctor, The 70

      Forgetful Pa 18

      Frosting Dish, The 24

      God Made This Day For Me 16

      Grate Fire, The 40

      Harder Part, The 62

      His Other Chance 68

      His Pa 52

      Homely Man, The 76

      Joys We Miss, The 44

      Just Half of That, Please 31

      Just Like a Man 48

      Kindly Neighbor, The 42

      Life 80

      Little Feet 46

      Living 88

      Lonely Old Fellow, The 82

      Marjorie 33

      Mother and the Baby 12

      Motherhood 20

      Need, The 56

      Newspaper Man, The 34

      Old-Fashioned Letters 14

      One In Ten, The 91

      Play the Game 26

      Playing For Keeps 22

      Service 96

      Somebody Else 84

      Success 81

      Tears Expressive, The 43

      Ten-Fingered Mice 58

      Things They Mustn't Touch, The 60

      To a Young Man 92

      Unchangeable Mother 78

      Until She Died 10

      Warm House and a Ruddy Fire, A 90

      When the Young are Grown 28

      Winding the Clock 54

      Workman's Dream, The 74

      Youth 64

      All That Matters

      Is Dedicated

      To My Wife

      Who Is

      All To Me

      E. A. G.

      ALL THAT MATTERS

      When all that matters shall be written down

      And the long record of our years is told,

      Where sham, like flesh, must perish and grow cold;

      When the tomb closes on our fair renown

      And priest and layman, sage and motleyed clown

      Must quit the places which they dearly hold,

      What to our credit shall we find enscrolled?

      And what shall be the jewels of our crown?

      I fancy we shall hear to our surprise

      Some little deeds of kindness, long forgot,

      Telling our glory, and the brave and wise

      Deeds which we boasted often, mentioned not.

      God gave us life not just to buy and sell,

      And all that matters is to live it well.

      UNTIL SHE DIED

      Until she died we never knew

      The beauty of our faith in God.

      We'd seen the summer roses nod

      And wither as the tempests blew,

      Through many a spring we'd lived to see

      The buds returning to the tree.

      We had not felt the touch of woe;

      What cares had come, had lightly flown;

      Our burdens we had borne alone—

      The need of God we did not know.

      It seemed sufficient through the days

      To think and act in worldly ways.

      And then she closed her eyes in sleep;

      She left us for a little while;

      No more our lives would know her smile.

      And oh, the hurt of it went deep!

      It seemed to us that we must fall

      Before the anguish of it all.

      Our faith, which had not known the test,

      Then blossomed with its comfort sweet,

      Promised that some day we should meet

      And whispered to us: He knows best.

      And when our bitter tears were dried,

      We found our faith was glorified.

      THE CALL

      I must get out to the woods again, to the whispering tree, and the birds a-wing,

      Away from the haunts of pale-faced men, to the spaces wide where strength is king;

      I must get out where the

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