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38            Poems by Mary Baker Eddy

  	           WISH AND ITEM 

 1	      To the editor of the Item, Lynn, Mass. 

  	    I HOPE the heart that's hungry
 3	      For things above the floor,
  	    Will find within its portals
  	      An item rich in store;

 6	    That melancholy mortals
  	      Will count their mercies o'er,
  	    And learn that Truth and wisdom
 9	      Have many items more;

  	    That when a wrong is done us,
  	      It stirs no thought of strife;
12	    And Love becomes the substance,
  	      As item, of our life;

  	    That every ragged urchin,
15	      With bare feet soiled or sore,
  	    Share God's most tender mercies, — 
  	      Find items at our door. 

18	    Then if we've done to others
  	      Some good ne'er told before,
  	    When angels shall repeat it,
21	      'Twill be an item more.