Now shall I take my sorrows and my joys And like a blanket of peace and tenderness Lightly upon this bed of earthly cares Cover them and hide from prying eyes The beauty and the sweetness I have known Late when the advancing years have crept Stealthily into this ageing house. Protect you r dreams my children from the world That would devour truth and good and right. The way before you opens like a rose With morning's first caress upon its buds. To live in light beyond the reason's scope, To labour for the world that is to be As we watch the dying generations fall, The spirit calls and our consent awaits, Let not the human passions sway your soul Or tempt you from the pathway to the Dawn, Trust in your heart that you have come to leap The barriers of moral rectitude, To live in beauty and ever to embrace The heights that lean to pilgrim souls that dare, Who shun deception's ways, look straight at death That God may walk once more upon the earth, And all heaven's glory here descend.
Poems Undated (1727)
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