. At early candle light and other poems. IIM? JIN5 NECTING. UR dear old pastor used topreach, as natural asa bird,Just the cheery kind ofsermons that a bobo-link can pourUpon you from a cherrybough, whenever hewas stirred;His wooing talk would almost win the fishes to theshore. But he wandered off one a curious sort of way,And got badly in the brush, as the circuit-riderssay. Down at Kbenezer Chapel there was meeting; everynightThe parson pleaded tenderly, though he was weakand worn, jinS HEETING 137 Saying, * Come, my neighbors, come! O come into thelight,To stand with us together in t

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. At early candle light and other poems. IIM? JIN5 NECTING. UR dear old pastor used topreach, as natural asa bird,Just the cheery kind ofsermons that a bobo-link can pourUpon you from a cherrybough, whenever hewas stirred;His wooing talk would almost win the fishes to theshore. But he wandered off one a curious sort of way,And got badly in the brush, as the circuit-riderssay. Down at Kbenezer Chapel there was meeting; everynightThe parson pleaded tenderly, though he was weakand worn, jinS HEETING 137 Saying, * Come, my neighbors, come! O come into thelight,To stand with us together in the dawning of themorn! And when he stopped to coughNot a sinner dared to scoflf,From the graybeards in the corner to the lovers far-thest o£f. Then his voice went to a whisper—he could not speakat all;And next evening I saw Jim, the ragged child ofcobbler Wood,Shivering at the crowded entrance, close against theouter he called the preacher over in the corner wherehe stood, And he said, I heard them pray,At our home, for you, to-day,And I went

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