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How can a mother's heart feel cold or weary Knowing her dearer self safe, sheltered, warm? How can she feel her road too dark or dreary, Who knows her treasure sheltered from the storm? How can she sin? Our hearts may be unheeding, Our God forgot, our holy saints defied; But can a mother hear her dead child pleading, And thrust those little angel hands aside? - [Death of Children] Kinds hearts are here; yet would the tenderest one Have limits to its mercy; God has none. - [Mercy] Rejoice, oh! grieving heart, The hours fly past; With each some sorrow dies, With each some shadow flies, Until at last The red dawn in the east Bids weary night depart, And pain is past. - [Heaven] Before I trust my Fate to thee, Or place my hand in thine, Before I let thy Future give Color and form to mine, Before I peril all for thee, Question thy soul to-night for me. - A Woman's Question [Matrimony] Half my life is full of sorrow, Half of joy, still fresh and new; One of these lives is a fancy, But the other one is true. - Dream-Life [Life] Do not cheat thy Heart and tell her, "Grief will pass away, Hope for fairer times in future, And forget to-day." Tell her, if you will, that sorrow Need not come in vain; Tell her that the lesson taught her Far outweighs the pain. - Friend Sorrow [Sorrow] Starry Crowns of Heaven Set in azure night! Linger yet a little Ere you hide your light:-- Nay; let Starlight fade away, Heralding the day! - Give Place [Stars] No star is ever lost we once have seen, We always may be what we might have been. - Legend of Provence [Stars] Rise! for the day is passing, And you lie dreaming on; The others have buckled their armour, And forth to the fight have gone: A place in the ranks awaits you, Each man has some part to play; The Past and the Future are nothing, In the face of the stern To-day. - Legends and Lyrics [Today] Seated one day at the organ, I was weary and ill at ease, And my fingers wandered idly Over the noisy keys. I do not know what I was playing, Or what I was dreaming then, But I struck one chord of music Like the sound of a great Amen. - Lost Chord [Music] Hark! the hours are softly calling Bidding Spring arise, To listen to the rain-drops falling From the cloudy skies, To listen to Earth's weary voices, Louder every day, Bidding her no longer linger On her charm'd way; But hasten to her task of beauty Scarcely yet begun. - Spring [Spring] Through the black night and driving rain A ship is struggling, all in vain, To live upon the stormy main;-- Miserere Domine! - The Storm [Shipwreck] O there are Voices of the Past, Links of a broken chain, Wings that can bear me back to Times Which cannot come again; Yet God forbid that I should lose The echoes that remain! - Voices of the Past [Past]
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