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Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton

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IT is the twilight hour	A
The daylight toil is done	B
And the last rays are departing	C
Of the cold and wintry sun	B
It is the time when Friendship	D
Holds converse fair and free	E
It is the time when children	B
Dance round the mother's knee	E
But my soul is faint and heavy	E
With a yearning sad and deep	F
By the fireside lone and dreary	E
I sit me down and weep	F
Where are ye merry voices	G
Whose clear and bird like tone	H
Some other ear now blesses	I
Less anxious than my own	H
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Where are ye steps of lightness	J
Which fell like blossom showers	K
Where are ye sounds of laughter	A
That cheer'd the pleasant hours	K
Thro' the dim light slow declining	C
Where my wistful glances fall	L
I can see your pictures hanging	C
Against the silent wall	L
They gleam athwart the darkness	J
With their sweet and changeless eyes	M
But mute are ye my children	B
No voice to mine replies	M
Where are ye Are ye playing	C
By the stranger's blazing hearth	N
Forgetting in your gladness	M
Your old home's former mirth	O
Are ye dancing Are ye singing	C
Are ye full of childish glee	E
Or do your light hearts sadden	B
With the memory of me	E
Round whom oh gentle darlings	M
Do your young arms fondly twine	P
Does she press you to her bosom	Q
Who hath taken you from mine	P
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Oh boys the twilight hour	A
Such a heavy time hath grown	H
It recalls with such deep anguish	R
All I used to call my own	H
That the harshest word that ever	A
Was spoken to me there	S
Would be trivial would be welcome	Q
In the depth of my despair	S
Yet no Despair shall sink not	T
While Life and Love remain	U
Tho' the weary struggle haunt me	E
And my prayer be made in vain	U
Tho' at times my spirit fail me	E
And the bitter tear drops fall	L
Tho' my lot be hard and lonely	E
Yet I hope I hope thro' all	L
	-
When the mournful Jewish mother	A
Laid her infant down to rest	V
In doubt and fear and sorrow	W
On the water's changeful breast	V
	-
She knew not what the future	A
Should bring the sorely tried	X
That the High Priest of her nation	B
Was the babe she sought to hide	X
No in terror wildly flying	C
She hurried on her path	Y
Her swoln heart full to bursting	C
Of woman's helpless wrath	Y
Of that wrath so blent with anguish	R
When we seek to shield from ill	Z
Those feeble little creatures	M
Who seem more helpless still	Z
Ah no doubt in such an hour	A
Her thoughts were harsh and wild	A2
The fiercer burned her spirit	B2
The more she loved her child	A2
No doubt a frenzied anger	A
Was mingled with her fear	C2
When that prayer arose for justice	M
Which God hath sworn to hear	D2
He heard it From His Heaven	B
In its blue and boundless scope	E2
He saw that task of anguish	R
And that fragile ark of hope	E2
	-
When she turn'd from that lost infant	F2
Her weeping eyes of love	G2
And the cold reeds bent beneath it	H2
His angels watch'd above	G2
She was spared the bitter sorrow	W
Of her young child's early death	I2
Or the doubt where he was carried	J2
To draw his distant breath	I2
She was call'd his life to nourish	R
From the well springs of her heart	K2
God's mercy re uniting	C
Those whom man had forced apart	K2
	-
Nor was thy woe forgotten	B
Whose worn and weary feet	L2
Were driven from thy homestead	M2
Through the red sand's parching heat	L2
Poor Hagar scorn'd and banish'd	N2
That another's son might be	E
Sole claimant on that father	A
Who felt no more for thee	E
	-
Ah when thy dark eye wander'd	O2
Forlorn Egyptian slave	P2
Across that lurid desert	Q2
And saw no fountain wave	P2
When thy southern heart despairing	C
In the passion of its grief	R2
Foresaw no ray of comfort	Q2
No shadow of relief	R2
But to cast the young child from thee	E
That thou might'st not see him die	S2
How sank thy broken spirit	B2
But the Lord of Hosts was nigh	S2
He He too oft forgotten	B
In sorrow as in joy	T2
Had will'd they should not perish	R
The outcast and her boy	T2
The cool breeze swept across them	U2
From the angel's waving wing	C
The fresh tide gush'd in brightness	M
From the fountain's living spring	C
And they stood those two forsaken	B
By all earthly love or aid	V2
Upheld by God's firm promise	M
Serene and undismay'd	V2
	-
And thou Nain's grieving widow	V2
Whose task of life seem'd done	B
When the pale corse lay before thee	E
Of thy dear and only son	B
Though Death that fearful shadow	V2
Had veil'd his fair young eyes	M
There was mercy for thy weeping	C
There was pity for thy sighs	M
The gentle voice of Jesus	M
Who the touch of sorrow knew	W2
The grave's cold claim arrested	V2
E'er it hid him from thy view	W2
And those loving orbs re open'd	V2
And knew thy mournful face	M
And the stiff limbs warm'd and bent them	U2
With all life's moving grace	M
And his senses dawn'd and waken'd	V2
From the dark and frozen spell	X2
Which death had cast around him	Y2
Whom thou did'st love so well	X2
Till like one return'd from exile	Z2
To his former home of rest	V2
Who speaks not while his mother	A
Falls sobbing on his breast	V2
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But with strange bewilder'd glances	M
Looks round on objects near	C2
To recognise and welcome	Q
All that memory held dear	C2
Thy young son stood before thee	E
All living and restored	V2
And they who saw the wonder	A
Knelt down to praise the Lord	V2
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The twilight hour is over	A
In busier homes than mine	P
I can see the shadows crossing	C
Athwart the taper's shine	P
I hear the roll of chariots	M
And the tread of homeward feet	V2
And the lamps' long rows of splendor	A
Gleam through the misty street	V2
No more I mark the objects	M
In my cold and cheerless room	A3
The fire's unheeded embers	M
Have sunk and all is gloom	A3
	-
But I know where hang your pictures	M
Against the silent wall	L
And my eyes turn sadly towards them	U2
Tho' I hope I hope thro' all	L
	-
By the summons to that mother	A
Whose fondness fate beguiled	V2
When the tyrant's gentle daughter	A
Saved her river floating child	V2
By the sudden joy which bounded	V2
In the banish'd Hagar's heart	V2
When she saw the gushing fountain	B
From the sandy desert start	V2
By the living smile which greeted	V2
The lonely one of Nain	B
When her long last watch was over	A
And her hope seem'd wild and vain	B
By all the tender mercy	E
God hath shown to human grief	R2
When fate or man's perverseness	E
Denied and barr'd relief	R2
	-
By the helpless woe which taught me	E
To look to him alone	B
From the vain appeals for justice	E
And wild efforts of my own	B
By thy light thou unseen future	A
And thy tears thou bitter past	V2
I will hope tho' all forsake me	E
In His mercy to the last	V2