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The Branch
Thou bidst me change with every changing hour,A new formed gift to bless the hungry poor;
For Thou through Christ has blest me with the power
To bear the fruits that shall for them endure;
In him may I grow stronger day by day,
A vigorous branch abiding in thy vine;
That men may pluck thereof and eating say,
“These grapes, O Father, these are wholly thine”
Then shall the clusters Thou dost love to see,
With every season changing face the sun;
And men rejoice beneath my shade to be,
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And I in Christ shall be forever blest,
To give them at its close thy holy rest.
Poem No. 665; fall 1838–summer 1839
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