Making The House A Home

Here's our story, page by page,
  Happy youth and middle-age,
  Smile and tear-drop, weal and woe
  Such as all who live must know--
  Here it is all written down,
  Not for glory or renown,
  But the hope when we are gone
  Those who bravely follow on
  Meeting care and pain and grief
  Will not falter in belief.