When the winds rise and break their mirror there.[Pg 79]

[Pg 79]

Oh happy child! She also learned the love

That places underneath her the strong arms

Of Him who held the children when on earth,

Journeying along his pathway to the cross.

She opened all her gentle Heaven-touched heart

To all the unknown teachings of her home.

The wild-flower's beauty passed into her thoughts,

And as she gazed, and saw in earth and sky,

In every form the love of God stream forth,

She knew of beauty that could never fade.

For He, from whom these emanations came,

Will never cease to be a God revealed.

Happy the child, for her fond parents both

Had souls to kindle with her sympathies.

They learned anew with her the blessed love,

Which makes the pure like children all their days.

With her pure mind repassed the former way,

Their age and youth blended at once in her.

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