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Change
Father! there is no change to live with Thee,Save that in Christ I grow from day to day,
In each new word I hear, each thing I see
My feet rejoycing hasten on the way;
The morning comes with blushes overspread,
And I new-wakened find a morn within;
And in its modest dawn around me shed,
Thou hearst the prayer and the ascending hymn;
Hour follows hour, the lengthening shades descend;
Yet they could never reach as far as me
Did not thy love their kind protection lend,
That I a child might sleep awhile on Thee;
Till to the light restored by gentle sleep
With new-found zeal I might thy precepts keep.
Poem No. 124; late 1838–early 1839
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