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The pastor sits in his easy chair	A
With the Bible upon his knee	B
From gold to purple the clouds in the west	C
Are changing momently	D
The shadows lie in the valleys below	D
And hide in the curtain's fold	E
And the page grows dim whereon he reads	F
I remember the days of old	E
	-
Not clear nor dark as the Scripture saith	G
The pastor's memories are	H
No day that is gone was shadowless	F
No night was without its star	H
But mingled bitter and sweet hath been	I
The portion of his cup	J
The hand that in love hath smitten he saith	G
In love hath bound us up	J
	-
Fleet flies his thoughts over many a field	K
Of stubble and snow and bloom	L
And now it trips through a festival	D
And now it halts at a tomb	L
Young faces smile in his reverie	B
Of those that are young no more	M
And voices are heard that only come	N
With the winds from a far off shore	M
	-
He thinks of the day when first with fear	O
And faltering lips he stood	P
To speak in the sacred place the Word	Q
To the waiting multitude	R
He walks again to the house of God	S
With the voice of joy and praise	F
With many whose feet long time have pressed	C
Heaven's safe and bless d ways	F
	-
He enters again the homes of toil	D
And joins in the homely chat	T
He stands in the shop of the artisan	U
He sits where the Master sat	T
At the poor man's fire and the rich man's feast	V
But who to day are the poor	W
And who are the rich Ask him who keeps	F
The treasures that ever endure	X
	-
Once more the green and the grove resound	Y
With the merry children's din	I
He hears their shout at the Christmas tide	Z
When Santa Claus stalks in	I
Once more he lists while the camp fire roars	F
On the distant mountain side	Z
Or proving apostleship plies the brook	A2
Where the fierce young troutlings hide	Z
	-
And now he beholds the wedding train	B2
To the altar slowly move	C2
And the solemn words are said that seal	D
The sacrament of love	D2
Anon at the font he meets once more	M
The tremulous youthful pair	A
With a white robed cherub crowing response	F
To the consecrating prayer	A
	-
By the couch of pain he kneels again	E2
Again the thin hand lies	F
Cold in his palm while the last far look	A2
Steals into the steadfast eyes	F
And now the burden of hearts that break	F2
Lies heavy upon his own	G2
The widow's woe and the orphan's cry	H2
And the desolate mother's moan	G2
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So blithe and glad so heavy and sad	I2
Are the days that are no more	M
So mournfully sweet are the sounds that float	J2
With the winds from a far off shore	M
For the pastor has learned what meaneth the word	Q
That is given him to keep	K2
Rejoice with them that do rejoice	F
And weep with them that weep	K2
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It is not in vain that he has trod	S
This lonely and toilsome way	L2
It is not in vain that he has wrought	M2
In the vineyard all the day	L2
For the soul that gives is the soul that lives	F
And bearing another's load	N2
Doth lighten your own and shorten the way	L2
And brighten the homeward road	N2

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