Singing God's love-song under eyes of God.

IV.

I dreamed a dream when six years old:—

Against my mother's knee one day,

Protected by her mantle's fold,

All weary, weak, and wan I lay.

Then seemed it that in caverns drear

I roamed forlorn. The weeks went by

From month to month, from year to year:

At last I laid me down to die.