Uploaded January 2019 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago

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A poem on growing old with faith, written in Henry's daughter Jane's Poetry Manuscript Book in 1827, the year before Henry died at the age of 79. Narrated by Byron Nilsson to "Boston."

Without distinction, fame, or note
Upon the tide of life I float,
A bubble almost lost to sight
As cobweb frail, as vapor light;
And yet within that bubble lies
A spark of life which never dies.