. Ethel's story: illustrating the advantages of patience . hrond above. That cherub gaze, that stainless brow, So exquisitely fair!Who would not be an infant now, To breathe an infants prayer? No crime hath shaded its young heart,The eye scarce knows a tear; *Tis bright enough from earth to part,And grace another sphere I And I was once a happy thing,Like that which now I see, No May-bird, on ecstatic beautifully free : The cloud that baskd in noontide glow,The flower that danced and shone, AJl hues and sounds, above, joys to feast upon THE INFANT IN PRAYER. Let wisdom smi
. Ethel's story: illustrating the advantages of patience . hrond above. That cherub gaze, that stainless brow, So exquisitely fair!Who would not be an infant now, To breathe an infants prayer? No crime hath shaded its young heart,The eye scarce knows a tear; *Tis bright enough from earth to part,And grace another sphere I And I was once a happy thing,Like that which now I see, No May-bird, on ecstatic beautifully free : The cloud that baskd in noontide glow,The flower that danced and shone, AJl hues and sounds, above, joys to feast upon THE INFANT IN PRAYER. Let wisdom smile; I oft forget, The colder haunts of men,To hie where infant hearts are met, And be a child again; To look into the laughing eyesAnd see the wild thoughts play, While oer each cheek a thousand dyosOf mirth and meaning stray. 0 Manhood ! could thy spirit kneel Beside that sunny child,As fondly pray, and purely feel With soul as undefiled: That moment would encircle theeWith light and love divine; Thy gaze might dwell on Deity,And heaven itself be CHAFTEE THE FOURTH.
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