TREASURE IN HEAVEN 351 
Grant us one day’s deep peace 
Beyond the utmost rumor of all strife. 
For if no joy can stay, 
Let it at least yield one consummate bloom, 
Or else there is no room ‘ 
To find delight in love, or life, or May. 
TREASURE IN HEAVEN 
IF messengers we fear 
Should hither come to-day, 
And beckon me away 
From all that earth holds dear ; 
And I should trembling turn 
' And cling to glowing life, 
Yet in the fiercest strife 
Feel.heart and reason burn ; 
Then look into love’s face, 
And see with anguish wild 
Our rosy little child 
With all her baby grace, 
And stretch my feeble hand 
To keep the darling near, — 
My fainting soul would hear 
A voice from spirit-land. 
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