YALE, Harriet

YALE

Posted By: Nettie Mae (email)
Date: 5/23/2021 at 17:43:30

The Clinton Herald, Sept. 24, 1913
Page 6

Mrs. Harriet Yale, widow of Lafayette Yale a pioneer furniture dealer in the city of Clinton, died in the east September 6, the body cremated and the ashes brought to this city for burial which was done September 19. Mrs. Yale was born June 30, 1828 and although she had reached a wonderful old age retained many of her faculties. She wrote much and the poem which is given below was written by her and was read at the services in the east and at the graveside in Springdale.

Thoughts Are Living Things

Our thoughts are living things
Send them out with care.
They journey on to friend or foe
And find them everywhere.
In time of love or time of pain
Material gathers fast
Let it be cheerful, kind and true
Send not a poisoned shaft.
Oh like the sunchine let it be
Gladding all the world.
Let thoughts wave out o'er land and sea
Like a lovely flan unfurled.
God made such things a living force
To do some good somewhere.
So let our thoughts be bright and pure
And send them out with care.
For surely they'll come back to us
Back from the shadowly past
And as we mete it out to all
It comes back to us at last.