Hand drawn Friendship Tribute with drawings and poems

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Good, rough edges

Miss Eliza Ann Stearns, Never the shining robes Of innocence deface.           The golden hours of youth Are sliding fast away.

Please to accept this small tribute of love and affection.                                    with the best wishes of your friend, Sarah A. Stearn

                                                                                                        YOUTH

In the soft season of thy youth, In Natures smiling morn, Ever age arrives and trembling waits, Its summons to the tomb, Remember thy Creator God, For him thy hours employ, Make him thy strength, thy cane, thy hope, Thy confidence thy joy.  O seek the Lord betimes and choose, The path of heavenly truth, This with no lovelier right affords Than a religious youth.