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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 244, 17 October 1867, Page 3

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'GOING ALONE.' "With curls in the sunny air tossing, ' With light in the merry blue eyes, With laughter so clearly outringing, ' A laugh of delight and surprise. All friendly assistance disdaining, And trusting no strength but its own, Tr e past fears and trials forgotten, -The baby is • going alone !' . What woeful mishaps have preceded This day of rejoicing and pride t How Often the help that he needed ,> Ha« carelessly gone from his side ! ;;.% „, He has fallen while reaching for suribeiwn'si Which just as he grasped them have flown, And {be tears of vexation have followed, .;,./. Bu^-now he is ' going alone !' . . And all through his life he will study This. lesson again and again; .He will carelessly leanoipdn. shadows, He will full and weep over the pain. The hand whose fond blasp was the surest Will coldly withdraw Jrom his own, .The sunniest eyes -will, be clouded, And he will be walking alone ! He will learn what a stern world we live in, And he may grow cold like "the rest, And just keep a warm sunny welcome For those who seem truest and best; Yet chasteued and taught by past sorrow, And stronger and manlier gr>wn, Not trusting his all in their keeping, He learns to walk bravtJy alone. And yet not alone, for our Father The faltering footsteps wiil guide Through ail the dark mazes of earth-life, And * over the river's' deep tide Oh I here is a Helper unfailing, A strength we can perfectly trust, When, all human aid unavailing, • The dust shall return unto dust.'