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Expressive is the German name our favourite 
has obtain’d, 
The “Watcher of the Wayside” is the title it 
has gain’d ; 
And beautiful to us appears the mission it | 
fulfils, 
And hallow’d are the teachings which it silently 
instils 
In hearts that sometimes droop and sigh be- 
cause of life’s stern ills. 
While traversing our toilsome path, far from our 
home and rest, 
By varied roughnesses and cares sore burden’d 
and depress’d, 
How often on our aching sight some cheering 
promise beams, 
Or some unlook’d-for favour in the waste around 
us gleams ! 
And in a moment, oh, how changed the road 
before us seems ! 


