Poems.
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Thy loving heart did sweetly say,
"Will God kiss me on high,
If I will love him, and will pray
Each day until I die?"
"Will God kiss me on high,
If I will love him, and will pray
Each day until I die?"
It is not for the human eye,
Or mortal heart to scan,
The secrets of the upper sky,
So wisely veiled from man.
Or mortal heart to scan,
The secrets of the upper sky,
So wisely veiled from man.
Enough for us, dear girl, to feel
There is a God above,
Who doth to all his children deal,
Impartial gifts of love.
There is a God above,
Who doth to all his children deal,
Impartial gifts of love.
And we, if we obey him here,
Shall taste in realms on high,
Far from this little earthly sphere,
Joys that can never die.
Shall taste in realms on high,
Far from this little earthly sphere,
Joys that can never die.
STANZAS.
I love to think that when we die,
When this, our mortal frame's at rest,
When this, our mortal frame's at rest,
