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4              Poems by Mary Baker Eddy


  	   MOTHER'S EVENING PRAYER 

 1	    O GENTLE presence, peace and joy
  	        and power;
 3	      O Life divine, that owns each
  	        waiting hour,
  	    Thou Love that guards the nestling's falter-
 6	        ing flight! 
  	      Keep Thou my child on upward wing
  	        tonight. 

 9	    Love is our refuge; only with mine eye
  	      Can I behold the snare, the pit, the fall:
  	    His habitation high is here, and nigh,
12	      His arm encircles me, and mine, and all. 

  	    O make me glad for every scalding tear,
  	      For hope deferred, ingratitude, disdain! 
15	    Wait, and love more for every hate, and fear
  	      No ill, — since God is good, and loss is gain. 

  	    Beneath the shadow of His mighty wing;
18	      In that sweet secret of the narrow way,
  	    Seeking and finding, with the angels sing:
  	      "Lo, I am with you alway," — watch and
21	        pray. 

 
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 1	    No snare, no fowler, pestilence or pain;
  	      No night drops down upon the troubled
 3	        breast,
  	    When heaven's aftersmile earth's tear-drops
  	        gain,
 6	      And mother finds her home and heav'nly
  	        rest.