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Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch shares a poem he wrote for former President George H.W. Bush

As Utah’s political leaders remember the life and mourn the death of George H.W. Bush, who died late Friday at age 94, Sen. Orrin Hatch shared a poem he’d written to the former president and his wife back in 2013.

The Utah Republican tweeted out a copy of the 11-line poem on Monday, which is handwritten on paper carrying the official United States Senate letterhead and dated January 15, 2013.

“You are resplendent in years / and worth all the tears / as we worry / and hurry / Through each eventful day / in this great land made greater still by God’s firm hand / and your strong will / that searched for the better way / every day,” the poem reads.