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                 Poems by Mary Baker Eddy                  23

  	      TO MY ABSENT BROTHER 

 1	    DWELLS there a shadow on thy
  	        brow — 
 3	      A look that years impart? 
  	    Does there a thought of van-
  	        ished hours
 6	      Come ever o'er thy heart? 

  	    Or give those earnest eyes yet back
  	      An image of the soul,
 9	    Mirrored in truth, in light and joy,
  	      Above the world's control? 

  	    So may their gaze be ever fraught
12	      With utterance deep and strong,
  	    Yielding a holy strength to right,
  	      A stern rebuke to wrong! 

15	    Thy soul, upborne on wisdom's wings,
  	      In brighter morn will find
  	    Life hath a higher recompense
18	      Than just to please mankind. 

  	    Supreme and omnipresent God,
  	      Guide him in wisdom's way! 
21	    Give peaceful triumph to the truth,
  	      Bid error melt away! 

  	      Lynn, Mass., November 8, 1866.