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Nuss Family Genealogy
In Loving Memory of Mom and Dad
The Children of Carl and Winnie (Fosler) Nuss
For those we love within the veil
Who were the parents of our way
We thank you, Lord; for they have won
To cloudless day;
And life for them is life indeed,
The splendid goal of earth’s strait race;
And where no shadows intervene
They see your face.
Not as we knew them anymore,
Toil-worn with earthly burdened care.
Erect, clear-eyed, upon their brows
Your Name they bear.
Free from the fret of mortal years,
And knowing now your perfect will,
With quickened sense and heightened joy,
They serve you still.
O fuller, sweeter is that life,
And larger, ampler is the air;
Eye cannot see nor heart conceive
The glory there;
Nor know to what high purpose you
Do yet employ their ripened powers,
Nor how at your command they touch
This life of ours.
There are no tears within their eyes;
With love they keep perpetual tryst;
And praise and work and rest are one,
With you, O Christ.
Adapted from the poem
by
William Charter Piggott
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