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Mother's Evening Prayer
MARY BAKER EDDY

               O gentle presence, peace and joy and power;
               O Life divine, that owns each waiting hour,
               Thou Love that guards the nestling's faltering flight!
               Keep Thou my child on upward wing tonight.

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

               O make me glad for every scalding tear,
               For hope deferred, ingratitude, disdain!
               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;
               In that sweet secret of the narrow way,
               Seeking and finding, with the angels sing:
               "Lo, I am with you alway," — watch and pray.

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

Excerpted from Poems
by Mary Baker Eddy, pp. 4-5

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