CONVALESCENT.
Lapped warm in the care of a watchful love, She sits in the sunshine this Summer day, Yet, ah ! it is scarcely a month aero Since love could do nothing bnt weep • and pray. To the gleaming gate of God's Heaven she went, The songs of His angels she nearlj heard ; And now, as we look in her pearl-pink face, Our hearts within us are strangely stirred. So little more, and, all mystery pa«t, This j?irl had been wiser than all tlie wise. Did her soul hear anything tongue may not toll, As it gazes at us through soft blue eyes ; And who might have been in the heavenly choir, Muht shrink from the shadow of pride and wrong, Must walk in the light of the gleaming pate, In step to the air of the angel's song. So this young life surely must henceforth bear A solemn sweetness, a tender grace, As of one who turns to her daily task From kneeling awhile in God's Holy Place. — The Quiver.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2224, 9 October 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)
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170CONVALESCENT. Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2224, 9 October 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)
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