WHEN I forth fare beyond this narrow earth,
With all its metes and bounds of now and here,
And brooding clouds of ignorance and fear
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If suddenly upon the street
My gracious Saviour I should meet,
And he should say, 'As I love thee,
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IF, when I kneel to pray,
With eager lips I say:
“Lord, give me all the things that I desire,—
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I WONDER, dear, if you had been
The maiden queen’s pet maid of honor,
A flower of that fair time wherein
A court of roses smiled upon her,
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