Keefe, Ida 1865 - 1882

KEEFE

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 6/10/2014 at 16:41:28

Iowa Plain Dealer November 23, 1882, P3 C3

DIED.

KEEFE.—Oct. 29, 1882, at her father’s residence, Mr. Daniel Keefe, at Busti, Iowa, Miss Ida Keefe, aged 17 years.

Like the evening light of a summer’s eve,
She faded away from earth;
Yes, that gentle spirit, for whom they grieve,
Has another nobler birth.

All blissful and calm was her early death;
No shade rested on her brow,
And angels had borne her latest breath,
To that Heaven she dwells in now.

To-morrow, the earth in its cold embrace,
Shall her cherished form receive,
Shall leave of that gentle being no trace,
Save the mound o’er which they grieve.

But seventeen summers had o’er her passed
And her girlhood’s sunny bloom,
With the fragrance of innocence o’er it cast,
Will they now consign to the tomb.

The mournful sound of the autumn breeze,
As its voice bespeaks decay,
While it signs through the almost leafless trees
Has a sadder tone to-day.

Each leaf, in its rustling, seems to tell
Of the youthful spirit fled;
Soon, the dismal toll of to-morrow’s bell,
Shall announce that she is dead.

Say rather, gone to a heaven of peace,
Ere her heart knew shade of guile,
Where care, sorrow and suffering cease,
Before us a little while.

That loving mother, whose badge she wore,
Had tenderly bid her come;
The child of Mary’s brief life is o’er,
But angels have borne her home.