from autograph album of Emma Sickles Thornton Davis |
Mary Caroline "Nannie" Thornton Shaw March 30, 1874 Bedford, Indiana |
"Let fate do her worst, there are relics of joy,
Bright dreams of the past, which she cannot destroy,
Which come in the night time of sorrow and care,
And bring back the features that joy used to wear,
Long, long be my heart with such memories fill'd!
Like the vase, in which roses have once been distill'd,
You may break, you may shatter the vase if you will,
But the scent of the roses will hang round it still."
Your sister,
Nannie Thornton
March 30, 1874