Who have “forsaken all” to love and follow only Thee;
And they have left the “near and dear,” the parent, child, and friend;
Then in Thy holy name may all these sweet affections blend!
And should the world desert them, Lord, oh, be the world to them,
The song of their rejoicing here, in Heaven the crowning gem;
Thy sacred guidance grant, I pray, o’er life’s tempestuous sea,
Awhile a gentle course, and then,—a sheltering port in Thee.
3d mo., 1831. E. P. K.