Earle E Cleveland

I remember you and I How we sat to lunch summer after summer I remember you and I The small scope critic and the pearl sweet preacher We lunched in the Bronx, feasted In Manhattan, the wasted Cancer fled, I have not forgotten For then you brimmed my soul with heaven You lived your sermons then, and I Saw faith's ladder and touched the sky. I remember you and I And either side of that wheelchair, she calling O she calling, you I Her two boyfriends, and her bright eyes twinkling To see you jealous still And we playing her will Could shed that moment for heaven's grace And serve the word without trims and lace O yes, how bless I was those days To worship where you made your praise. I remember you and I Surprised that greatness could be so humble still I remember you and I How you favored me when all by you was still I read Hope of the Race And a tumult took place In my village world, O way back then, I traveled here from the margin, friend To find your shadow and to learn Mysteries of grace as I yearn. I remember you and I Was this all men form bonds for, and death to break I remember you and I O pulpiteer, shall it hold again when we wake Shall the cancer fled day Hold against mortal fray Lord yield me thy Spirit to obey And walk like you 'long the tortured way You lived your sermons then, and I Saw faith's ladder and touched the sky.