Rain and Roses

<h2><SPAN name="BROTHER_O_MINE" id="BROTHER_O_MINE"></SPAN>Brother O’ Mine</h2> <div class="poetry"> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="ig"><span class="letra">D</span>O you remember the cardinal’s call,<br/></span> <span class="ih">Brother O’ mine?<br/></span> <span class="i0">The hills that we climbed, be they ever so tall,<br/></span> <span class="i0">With never a fear for a hurt or a fall,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Wondering ever if skies did fall,<br/></span> <span class="i6">Brother O’ mine.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Many a hill we’ve climbed since then,<br/></span> <span class="i6">Brother O’ mine.<br/></span> <span class="i0">Been pelted with roses and rinsed with the rain<br/></span> <span class="i0">Of our sorrowing teardrops time and again;<br/></span> <span class="i0">Despair in our hearts and a clutch of pain,<br/></span> <span class="i6">Brother O’ mine.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">And there were pebbles that hurt our feet<br/></span> <span class="i6">Brother O’ mine.<br/></span> <span class="i0">But the dust of the highway seemed velvet sweet<br/></span> <span class="i0">Tho’ many a cross and trials we’d meet,<br/></span> <span class="i0">With daisies and graves at our very feet,<br/></span> <span class="i6">Brother O’ mine.<span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page_72" id="page_72">{72}</SPAN></span><br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Father we had in the bygone days,<br/></span> <span class="i6">Brother O’ mine.<br/></span> <span class="i0">And mother to wipe all our tears away.<br/></span> <span class="i0">Tho’ sodden the sky, and shadows be grey<br/></span> <span class="i0">God will speak clear of the mist some day,<br/></span> <span class="i6">Brother O’ mine.<br/></span> <span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page_73" id="page_73">{73}</SPAN></span></div> </div></div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />