Wayside pictures, hymns, and poems . quills. Their dinners lie beside them, and beyond Are dr-ills and hammers and long iron bars. Ere they begin to laboiu, child and sire Kneel down among the rocks, and that dark cave Is visited by angels, whose bright wings Float through the darkness to the voice of prayer. Aloud the father intercedes with Heaven For blessings on the labour of their hands. And blessings on his darling ones at home. That He would spare them, if it were His will. To meet at eve around the supper board. But if they fell and died among the rocks. He prayed that they might dwell
Wayside pictures, hymns, and poems . quills. Their dinners lie beside them, and beyond Are dr-ills and hammers and long iron bars. Ere they begin to laboiu, child and sire Kneel down among the rocks, and that dark cave Is visited by angels, whose bright wings Float through the darkness to the voice of prayer. Aloud the father intercedes with Heaven For blessings on the labour of their hands. And blessings on his darling ones at home. That He would spare them, if it were His will. To meet at eve around the supper board. But if they fell and died among the rocks. He prayed that they might dwell in heaven, and sit Down at the marriage-supper of the Lamb. And then he wiestled for his comrade-boy; And in his earnestness he seemed to grasp The arm of the Most High, and so prevailed That heaven kissed earth and dropped into the mine. Could you have peered into that younglings face. Hidden in both his hands, you would liave seen Great shining tear-drops roll down on the stones. That boy gi-ew up to bear the cross of Christ. * I. THE MULE-DRIVFjR. 05 PART II. llx^KARS stole away ; the rich mine richer grow;jfV^ Another lode was added richer still::]K;\ It strangely shot oiit in the engine-shaft, -^ And so he hailed it as a friend wiili gems,Who came to pour the treasm-es in his was a vein of copper hright as brass,Which soon became the theme at every has colours different in the ores,As various as the rainbow,—black and blueAnd gi-een and red and yellow as a flower;Gold-colonred here, there dimly visil) rich the same in measure and in found alike where glittering granite gloams,^Vhere killas darkens, and where gossans shroiid,And oft where wise ones wi-ite it cannot be,—Thus wisely scattered by the Hand is more secret far, -svith duller eyeOft hiding in the rivers shingly bed,Or the flints bosom, near the central chambers wide, or veins like silken lace ;So that the labourer, stumbling on a his hot br
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