A Very Happy Father’s Day to all Fathers and Grandfathers. Here’s a little poem for today:

MY FATHER
His form, combining health and ease,
And features form'd by Heaven to please—
His face is placid. In his mien
Meekness and Charity are seen.
If you could view his polish'd mind,
Religion's self is there combined
With grace, and truth, and manly pride,
Which to Religion are allied—
You'd find, if you his life could scan,
"God's noblest work, an honest man."
~By Joseph Howe of Nova Scotia (written when he was only 16 for his father John Howe, who was a Loyalist)