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Shop
Pioneer
Log Cabin
The
Sheller House
The
Carriage Barn
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The Weaver
by Edgar A. Guest
The patter of rain on the roof,
The glint of the sun on the rose;
Of life, these the warp and the
woof,
The weaving that everyone knows.
Now grief with its consequent tear,
Now joy with its luminous smile;
The days are the threads of the
year--
Is what I am weaving worth while?
What pattern have I on my loom?
Shall my bit of tapestry please?
Am I working with gray threads
of gloom?
Is there faith in the figures I
seize?
When my fingers are lifeless and
cold,
And the threads I no longer can
weave
Shall there be there for men to
behold
One sign of the things I believe?
God sends me the gray days and rare,
The threads from his bountiful
skein,
And many, as sunshine, are fair.
And some are as dark as the rain.
And I think as I toil to express
My life through the days slipping
by,
Shall my tapestry prove a success?
What sort of a weaver am I?
Am I making the most of the red
And the bright strands of luminous
gold?
Or blotting them out with the thread
By which all men's failure is told?
Am I picturing life as despair,
As a thing men shall shudder to
see,
Or weaving a bit that is fair
That shall stand as the record
of me?
Published in 1917 in the book
of his poems called Just Folks
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Mishler
Weaving Mill
NEW
The
Tin Shop
Lydo Barn Exhibit
The Historic Church of God
On Saturday
April 26, 2003
a Dedication
was held for
The Ohio Bicentennial Historical Marker
at
the John Mishler Weaving Mill in Smithville
and the Grand
Opening of
the Historical Society Reception Center
at
391½ East Main Street [State Route 585]
Smithville, Wayne
County, Ohio.
Please
help identify
the people in the photos.
Smithville
Freshman Class 1927,
other High School Photos, and Burkholder
Family
New 29
July '08
Number
3 School
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Smithville
Community Historical Society, P.O. Box 12, Smithville, OH 44677
