Donald Myles, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Goesch, was born August 3, 1931 and departed this life October 15, 1931. Aged two months and twelve days.

How brief the stay, as beautiful as fleeting,
The time that baby came with us to dwell;
Just long enough to give a happy greeting,
Just long enough to bid us all farewell!

I cannot tell to what sweet dell
The angels may have born thee;
But this I know, thou canst not go
Where my heart will fail to find thee.

Gem of our hearth, our household pride,
Could love have saved, thou hadst not died,
Our dear sweet child!

Humbly we bow to fates decree;
Yet had we hoped that Time should see
Thee mourn for us; not us for thee.

Yet ‘tis sweet balm to our despair,
Fond, fairest boy;
That heaven is God’s, and thou art there,
With him in joy.

There past are death and all its woes;
There life’s sweet stream forever floes,
And raptures day no sunset knows.

O, not in cruelty, not in wrath,
The reaper came that day;
Twas and angel visited this green earth
And took the flowers away.

The Farnam Echo 51(7):1 Wednesday, Oct. 21, 1931