The Secret Heart by Robert P. Tristram Coffin

                      The Secret Heart


Across the years he could recall
His father one way best of all.

In the stillest hour of the night
The boy awakened to a light.

Half in dreams, he saw his sire
With his great hands full of fire.

The man has struck a match to see
If his son slept peacefully.

But when he touched the sleepyhead
His match fire left his finger red







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