DeMcatcJ) 



TO 



THE MEMORY OF OUR PARENTS, 



LAURENCE EDMONDSTON, M.D., 



AND 



ELIZA M ACER AIR, HIS WIFE. 



Father and Mother, vanished from this Home 

 To that which waits us in the Better Land, 



From rock, and hill, from cloud, and breeze, and foam, 

 From life and legend, from the household band, 



From that which made our native Hialtland dear. 



We took betimes the Memories gathered here. 



Amid the business, and the grief of Life, 

 The petty triumph, and the passing joy, 



The haste, the pressing onward, and the strife. 

 We have found happiness without alloy 



In calling from our Past such echoes sweet 



As seemed to vagrant Fancy the most meet. 



Father, who taught us in our early youth 



To find a God in Nature's pages wide ; 

 Mother, who led along the way of Truth, 



And was our Heaven-sent pattern and our guide : 

 Parents, where ye await the dawn of Day 

 This tribute of our filial love we lay. 



