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PART VI.

THE END.

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WHAT purer, brighter sight on earth, than when
The sun looks down upon a drop of dew,

Hid in some nook from all but angels' ken,

And with his radiance bathes it through and through,
Then into realms too clear for our frail view

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LITTLE BESSIE.

Exhales and draws it with absorbing love?

And what if Heaven therein give token true

Of grace that new-born dying infants prove,

Just touched with Jesus' light, then lost in joys above?

LITTLE BESSIE.

"HUG me closer, closer, mother;
Put your arms around me tight;
I am cold and tired, mother,
And I feel so strange to-night!

Something hurts me here, dear mother,
Like a stone upon my breast:

O, I wonder, wonder, mother,
Why it is I cannot rest!

"All the day, while you were working,
As I lay upon my bed,

I was trying to be patient,

And to think of what you said:

How the kind and blessed Jesus

Loves his lambs to watch and keep;
And I wished he 'd come and take me
In his arms, that I might sleep.

"Just before the lamp was lighted,
Just before the children came,

KEBLE.

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