Heart's Desire.
The boy epoko first that winter morat "To-day we sow tiio last of the oorn. Wish, and 'tis granted at harvest-tide; So, a Bword to draw! and a horse to ride! Said <the Girl, "One wish I know God The* prayer of' our heart-beats through all our years." . She smiled: "That wish is neer forgot, God knows, our heart knows, what we know not." Through the flying dust and the oannoaThoTuUet sped, and the bullet spoke: "On the battle-field for thy Land to Thou hast thy Wish, and the ond is nigh." Said the young soldier, "After the fight. When they bury the dead on the held to. night, . Low in the black trench I shall be— With my heart's desire given to me I "To me it is given, as I pass away. To know that my prayer is heard today ! . . • 0 Land, can thy desire bo vam Told to God in the tele of thy. slain I —Ellen Marriage Garrett.-
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1629, 21 December 1912, Page 16
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164Heart's Desire. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1629, 21 December 1912, Page 16
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