On the Facebook page for Ruby Watts' granddaughter, there was a video of her choir performing and one of the songs was called Things That Never Die. I looked up the lyrics and they are from a Charles Dickens poem. The words are also in the song by Canadian Tenors called Watching Over Me which I don't believe I have been able to track down actual lyrics for again.
About an hour after I wrote the poem down, the actual song came on Pandora. Right after that, the George Michael song Careless Whisper which reminded me of the George Michael quote I just wrote about earlier and I just remembered now how that song was played by some weird saxophone player in some videos on YouTube that you thought were funny. They were funny. Here is the poem.
The pure, the bright, the beautiful
That stirred our hearts in youth,
The streams of love and truth,
The longing after something lost,
The spirit's yearning cry,
The striving after better hopes--
These things can never die.
The timid hand stretched forth to aid
A brother in his need,
A kindly word in grief's dark hour
That proves a friend indeed;
The plea for mercy softly breathed,
When justice threatens high,
The sorrow of a contrite heart--
These things shall never die.
Let nothing pass for every hand
Must find some work to do,
Lost not a chance to waken love,
Be firm and just and true.
So shall a light that cannot fade
Beam on them from on high,
And angel voices say to thee--
These things will never die.
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