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A MOTHER'S PRAYER,
On her Two Sons going to the Wars.
January 12, 1915.
Lord, lift this weight of fear
That presses on my heart;
Teach me that there, as well as here,
In love and power Thou art!
That presses on my heart;
Teach me that there, as well as here,
In love and power Thou art!
They cannot wander where
Thy hand protective fails;
O'er all Thy children, wheresoe'er,
Thy providence prevails.
Thy hand protective fails;
O'er all Thy children, wheresoe'er,
Thy providence prevails.
Fortune, and Fate, and Chance
Are messengers divine;
Thine is the gather'd circumstance,
The issue, too, is Thine.
Are messengers divine;
Thine is the gather'd circumstance,
The issue, too, is Thine.
Why should one doubt appear,
If life is order'd thus?
No interchange of hope and fear
Affects Thy care of us!
If life is order'd thus?
No interchange of hope and fear
Affects Thy care of us!
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