The Christian Home / As it is in the Sphere of Nature and the Church; Showing the Mission, Duties, Influences, Habits, and Responsibilities of Home, its Education, Government, and Discipline; with Hints on "Match Making," and the Relation of Parents to the Marriage Choice of their Children; together with a consideration of the Tests in the Selection of a Companion, Etc.

by Samuel Philips

Alone may wear. With ruthless haste he bound

The silken fringes of those curtained lids

Forever.

Forever. There had been a murmuring sound,

With which the babe would claim its mother’s ear,

Charming her even to tears. The spoiler set

His seal of silence.

His seal of silence. But there beamed a smile

So fixed, so holy, from that cherub brow,

Death gazed—and left it there.