A Gift of Gold For a Birdlett
It only took a word from her,
A compliment about her singing;
Then she was picked for a travelling sextet;
This birdlett was soaring and winging.
For you see she wasn’t the most popular girl;
Too plump, good only for teasing,
But the music teacher heard her potential,
And chose her above others’ pleasing.
With this gift of gold she sang all of her life,
While the girl she overturned kept her friends,
Miss Gillette was the gray-haired teacher’s name,
And her memory of kindness won’t end.
The birdlett’s children and their children.
Sing and tell her family story,
It has taught and warmed down some lives’ roads,
Simply a way of spreading God’s glory.
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