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The spare room windows wide were raised	A
And you could look that summer day	B
On pastures green and sunny hills	C
And low rills wandering away	B
Near by the square front yard was sweet	D
With rose and caraway	B
	-
Upon a couch drawn near the light	E
The Deacon's only daughter lay	B
Bending upon the distant hills	C
Her eyes of dark and thoughtful gray	B
The blue veins on her forehead shone	F
'Twas wasted so away	B
	-
She moved and from her slender hand	G
Fell off her mother's wedding ring	H
She smiled into her father's face	I
So drops from me each earthly thing	H
My hands are free to hold the flowers	J
Of the eternal spring	H
	-
She had ever walked in quiet ways	K
Not over beds of flowery ease	L
But Sundays in the village choir	M
She sweetly sang of ways of peace	N
Of ways of peace and pleasantness	N
She trod such paths as these	N
	-
No sweeter voice in all the choir	M
Praised God in innocence and truth	O
The Deacon in his straight backed pew	P
Had dreams of her he lost in youth	O
And thought of fair faced Hebrew maids	N
Of Rachel and of Ruth	O
	-
But she had faded day by day	B
Growing more mild and pure and sweet	D
As nearer to her ear there came	Q
A distant sea's mysterious beat	D
Till now this summer afternoon	R
Its waters touched her feet	D
	-
Upon the painted porch without	S
Two women stood and whispered low	T
They thought she'd go out with the day	B
They said the Deacon's wife went so	T
And then they gently pitied him	U
It was a dreadful blow	T
	-
But she was good she was prepared	V
She would be better off than here	W
And then they thought 'twas strange that he	X
Her father had not shed a tear	Y
And then they talked of news and all	Z
The promise of the year	A2
	-
Her father sat beside the bed	B2
Holding her cold hands tenderly	X
And to the everlasting hills	N
He mutely turned his eyes away	B
My God my Shelter and my Rock	C2
Oh shadow me to day	B
	-
He knew not when she crossed the stream	D2
And passed into the land unseen	E2
So gently did she go from him	U
Into its pastures still and green	E2
Into the land of pure delight	E
And Jordan rolled between	E2
	-
Then knelt he down beside his dead	B2
His white locks lit with sunset's flame	Q
My God oh leave me not alone	F
But blessed be Thy holy name	Q
The golden gates were lifted up	F2
The King of Glory came	Q

Marietta Holley

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