He sees his wife and boy together there.

And then with tears the mother said—“My dear!

I have been trying to resign our son;

Come, kneel with me, give thanks to God in prayer,

That now the conflict’s o’er—the vict’ry won,

And from my heart I say, O, God! thy will be done!”

XXXIII.

She flies into her husband’s open arms,

And on his bosom pours a flood of tears;

There had she often flown, when gath’ring storms