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MIZPAH.
Genesis xxxi., 49.
The Lord watch between me and thee,When we are absent one from another;
Though long miles away thou mayst be,
And a hard fate each from the other
Forever divide, yet still must my prayer
E'er be the same—in hope or despair,
In days of soft peace, in suffering's breath,
In storm or in calm, in life or in death,
In right or in wrong, in good or in ill,
Ever the same, the same prayer still—
The Lord watch between me and thee—
Thee, love, no other—
Through might of the land, through power of the sea,
Where'er thou mayst be,
While we are absent one from another.
Constance Fenimore Woolson.
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