<h2 id="id00497" style="margin-top: 3em">If You But Knew</h2>
<p id="id00498" style="margin-top: 2em"> O lad, my lad, if you but knew<br/>
The glowing dreams I dream of you,—<br/>
The true, straight course of duty run,<br/>
The noble deeds, the victories won,<br/>
And you the hero of them all,—<br/>
I know that you would strive to be<br/>
The lad that in my dreams I see;<br/>
No tempter's voice could make you fall.<br/></p>
<p id="id00499"> Ah, lad, my lad, your frank, free smile<br/>
Has cheered me many a weary mile;<br/>
And in your face, e'en in my dreams,<br/>
Potent of future manhood beams,—<br/>
Manhood that lives above the small;<br/>
Manhood all pure and good and clean,<br/>
That scorns the base, the vile, the mean,<br/>
That hears and answers duty's call<br/></p>
<p id="id00500"> And lad, my lad, so strong and true,<br/>
This is the prayer I pray for you:<br/>
Lord, take my boy, and guide his life<br/>
Through all the pitfalls of the strife;<br/>
Lead him to follow out thy plan,<br/>
To do the deeds he ought to do,<br/>
To all thy precepts ever true;<br/>
Make him a clean and noble man.<br/></p>
<h5 id="id00501">MAX HILL.</h5>
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