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KATIE AND MABEL.
Alas! is Katie gone from mortal view?Has that sweet face for ever passed away,
O'er which perpetual sunshine seemed to play—
That happy life which sparkled with the dew
Of morning, and Hope's fairest rainbow hue?
Can she be gone whose voice but yesterday
Sweetly was heard to promise and to pray,
As round the Font with that dear babe we drew.
She promised for that little one—and died;
She prayed, and then her spirit upwards flew;
But Charity's kind offices abide:
What though her home is now above the blue,
An angel she may stoop to Mabel's side,
And lure her to the Beautiful and True!
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