LEAD, KINDLY LIGHT.
Lead, Kindly Light,*the bells are softly telling, Till night be gone; In many a heart the silent song is welling — Lead Thou me on; Oh bells! That sing the hymns my mother sung —• Lead Thou me on!
Life's cup I lift, with braver lips to ; drain it, For that ye sing; My cross I kiss, nor may I dare disdain it, Whate’er it bring; Oh bells! Ye voice the voice of one passed on! Oh bells! Till night 1)0 gone. Till night be gone!
I hear the grasses o'er a dead face growing Beyond your song; From out the years, my mother’s ’ sweet eyes showing — And night is gone; Oh bells! That sing above the rain and cold! Oh bells! That sing ajar the gates of gold!
Lead, Kindly Light, the bells are subtly -pealing — •Lead Thou me on; A child again against her heartbeats kneeling — Oh bells! That sing the precious story on — Oh bells! Till night,be gone —Till 'night he gene'! —Louis Dunham Ooldsberry.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2199, 6 November 1920, Page 1
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169LEAD, KINDLY LIGHT. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2199, 6 November 1920, Page 1
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