Show r ro 1 0 11 C 9 r I a 1 6 haf OUR LITTLE STRANGER st lay it X CASIM CASE JK we have a little sunny stranger just come down from the skies with the life and light of heaven beaming f ashly from its eyes she came cam ejust just as the morning was peeping oer the lull hill and the glorious floods of sunlight did tile heavenly chambers fill she brought brou glit with her bar tile the helplessness of the young and unfledged dove and tho sweet and holy innocence of that world where all is love you may know how bow much we love her for we fold lier her to our breast and we mind not daylights passing hours houra nor midnights broken rest and we list the quiet breathing of the little beating heart w and tile the voices of its helpless liel pless cries cause our own to thrill and start and 0 no earthly music so much our spirit stirs in its wildest sweetest wea measures As that little voice of hers it comes so fresh from heaven it seems like the last note it had caught upon its infant soul that round it there did float we mean to watch and guard it and love it more and more and keep it taintless from the blasts of earths bleak and sinful shore and well call ibby some beauteous name such as the angels love and such as delight to speak in their blest above and our hearts shall be more blessed and our lives shall be more bright blight and our path of duty lovelier for this new and heaven born light ano and if god should call her back again well give her up to him without aloit a soil upon its beauty or a ray of brightness dun but buta 0 father spare the trial that our spirits may not bear and help us its we beseech thee with a heavenly fathers care richmond va nov 22 1853 |