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suffer little children to come unto me.
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Fearless, that gracious call she heard;
And, as the heaven-aspiring bird
Plumes joyfully its golden wing,
Mid realms of purer light to sing,
So did her spotless soul ascend,
Before her Maker's throne to bend.

Life was to her a joyous dream:
She wakes where heaven's rich glories beam.
Calmly, as to her earthly rest,
Her fair young head its pillow pressed:
The angel-guard ye might not see,
Nor hear their strain of melody.

Would ye recall her from that sphere,
Though ransomed by one prayer, one tear?
A few short years of grief and pain,
And ye shall meet your own again,
Where life's pure tide, unsullied swells,
And love shall breathe no sad farewells.