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XII. VISITATIONS.
Sometimes evoked by stress of prayers and tears,And sometimes all unbidden, of free grace,
She gives me sight of her beloved face—
Now as the bright young maiden she appears,
Who shook my heart long since with hopes and fears;
Now, as she bloom'd, a flower of womanhood,
Image and source to me of all things good,
In the ripe summer of our wedded years.
But oftenest the dear features wear again
The smile so sad, yet so divinely sweet,
They wore in those last months of patient pain.
Then first her saintly soul I fully knew;
Love turn'd to worship, and my spirit threw
Itself in adoration at her feet.
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