SAVED.
The wind is spent and the gale is past. And the morning *un chines forth at last ; It snines on a strip of yellow wand, And a good ship sinking in sight of land. Over her deck and he battered side Lazily washes the ebbing tide ; Out of the struggle and deadlys true Lo! nothing saved but a baby life. A wee, frail thing is the one poor waif— A wee. frail thing to be sound and safe ; But all forgotten its brief alarms, It gayly crows in the otranger's arms. A sailor looks at the lit ■ le form - " 'Tis a tiny cr »f t to have stemmed the atorm l He sighs a bit as he beads him low, And his thoughts fly back to the long ago. Just such a babe on his young wife's breaat With clinging fingers his own caressed ; Just such another— but where is he? Wrecked on the voyage of life, maybe. Is this but spared that in years to come It may drift away from its heavenly home ? The baby laughs as hia boy once did ; Ah, will it be so 1 Nay, God forbid ! The sailor's hand has a gentle touch For the sake of the lad he loved so much ; And soft from his lip 3 ate the worda that fall " God bless the children, God keep them all !' —From "Sunday at Home.
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Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 97, 11 April 1885, Page 5
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233SAVED. Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 97, 11 April 1885, Page 5
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