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Little Margaret Reynolds Dead, page 2

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  • friends and associates. To those who knew her best and loved her most, her most marked characteristic was her high sense of honor and her peculiar regard for the truth. In her last sickness when there happened to occur some slight intimation that she was not willing to do just the right thing about taking her medicine her little heart was hurt, because she felt that she was doubted. She was patient and cheerful, wide awake and conscious to the very awake to the very last, exhibiting a sweetness of spirit that would put to shame many that are older. As we watched the departure of this precious little life for the other and higher sphere we could not but say with the poet: “Oh, what do you think the Angels say? Said the children up in heaven. “There’s a dear little girl coming home to-day, “She’s about ready to fly away From the earth we used to live in. Let us go and wait by the gate of Pearl, Which is opened wide for the dear little girl” Said the children up in heaven. “Fly with her quickly, ye Angels dear,” Said the children up in heaven. “See! Now she’s coming; Oh, look! Look there at the radiant light on her golden hair
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