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VI. GUARDIAN ANGELS.
The Being that enfolds in her embraceOur little lives and binds them into one,
We image as a Mother with her son
Clasp'd in her arms, because sole fount of grace
Is She to all the children of our race.
But, though we own her presence ever near,
She speaks no word to any mortal ear,
No mortal eye may look upon her face.
We know her through her angels, whom she sends—
Not airy creatures borne on radiant wings,
But loving women, born to be our friends,
To walk beside us on life's common way,
To be our charm and solace day by day,
And raise our drooping souls to higher things.
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