Studies of Sensation and Event Poems: By Ebenezer Jones. Edited, Prefaced and Annotated by Richard Herne Shepherd with Memorial Notices of the Author by Sumner Jones and William James Linton |
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[My wife and child, come close to me] |
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[My wife and child, come close to me]
My wife and child, come close to me,
The world to us is a stormy sea:
With your hands in mine, if your eyes but shine,
I care not how wild the storm may be.
The world to us is a stormy sea:
With your hands in mine, if your eyes but shine,
I care not how wild the storm may be.
For the fiercest wind that ever blew
Is nothing to me, so I shelter you;
No warmth do I lack, for the howl at my back
Sings down to my heart, “Man bold and true!”
Is nothing to me, so I shelter you;
No warmth do I lack, for the howl at my back
Sings down to my heart, “Man bold and true!”
A pleasant sail, my child, my wife,
O'er a pleasant sea, to many is life;
The wind blows warm, and they dread no storm,
And wherever they go, kind friends are rife.
O'er a pleasant sea, to many is life;
The wind blows warm, and they dread no storm,
And wherever they go, kind friends are rife.
But, wife and child, the love, the love
That lifteth us to the saints above,
Could only have grown where storms have blown
The truth and strength of the heart to prove.”
That lifteth us to the saints above,
Could only have grown where storms have blown
The truth and strength of the heart to prove.”
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