All That Matters

INDEX

Poem Page
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.

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.