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See! again! a woman hasting
Down a shadowy, sunset way,
Loving, anxious glances casting

Through the twilight soft and gray;
Homeward, love-ward she is hasting.

Laughing children run to meet her
From the home-door open wide;
Loving words and kisses greet her,
Pattering feet run by her side;
All the home comes forth to meet her.

III.

Look once more! a pilgrim weary
Standeth in the twilight gray;
All around is strange and dreary,

As she asks, with plaintive query, "Can you show the homeward way? Lead me homeward: I am weary."

Then a Presence stood to guide her,
Pointing where the way did lie;
Gently spoke, and walked beside her
To a gateway dim and high.

"Home!" she breathed, with restful sigh, To the Presence that did guide her.

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Homeward still, the tiny maiden,
Motherhood, love- and care-laden,
Age, with weight of years oppressed,
Homeward turn for love and rest.
And the home, with open door,
Waits with "Welcome" evermore.

W. H. Savage.

INDEX OF FIRST LINES.

Poems marked thus (*) have been printed only in part.

After our child's untroubled breath

A little fold of hands

*All as God wills, who wisely heeds

All that God wounds he constantly is healing
*Another hand is beckoning us

Answer me, burning stars of night

A snowflake falls from out the air above

As tender mothers guiding baby steps.

At eve it shall be light, the promise reads

*A white dove out of heaven flew

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Beside a massive gateway built up in years gone by

Blindfolded and alone I wait

Brother, the angels say

Buried to-day

*Children are God's Apostles

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*I cannot, cannot say

*I cannot make him dead

I cannot think of them as dead

*I do not come to weep above thy pall

If one had watched a prisoner many a year

*"If ye loved me," Jesus said

I had a little daughter.

I hear it singing, singing sweetly

I lay me down to rest

I like that ancient Saxon phrase .

In schools of wisdom all the day was spent

*In the Baron's hall of pride.

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Servant of God, well done! .

She waited for the summons, lengthening days
Since thy Father's arm sustains thee

Sleep, tired ene, sleep

Sometime, when all life's lessons have been learned

Straight and still the baby lies

Such beautiful, beautiful hands

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Take them, O death, and bear away
The baby wept

The dead are like the stars by day

*The face which duly as the sun

The fragrance of the rose

The little feet that never trod

There is a Reaper whose name is Death

There is no death! The stars go down

There is no flock, however watched and tended.

There's not an hour but from some sparkling beach

They sat in peace in the sunshine

Those we love truly never die

Thou that art strong to comfort

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To pass through life beloved as few are loved
To weary hearts, to mourning homes
Twilight falls, a tiny maiden

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Until we meet again, that is the meaning

We know not what it is, dear

We must not doubt, or fear, or dread .
*We need some charmer, for our hearts are sore.
We watched her breathing through the night
We wreathed about our darling's head
What shall I do with all the days and hours
What may we take into the vast forever

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