Guarding his inner life from touch of ill,

With its dove-pinion still!

Let such a sense of thee,

Thy watching presence, thy sustaining love,

His bosom-guest inalienably be,

That wheresoe’er he move,

A heavenly light serene

Upon his heart and mien

May sit undimm’d! a gladness rest his own,

Unspeakable, and to the world unknown!