1864

"HIS MOTHER KEPT ALL THESE SAYINGS IN HER HEART"

by William Cullen Bryant HIS MOTHER KEPT ALL THESE SAVINGS IN HER HEART -

As o'er the crade of her Son

The blessed Mary hung,

And chanted to the Anointed One

The psalms that David sung, -

What joy her bosom must have known,

As, with a sweet surprise,

She marked the boundless love that shone

Within his infant eyes. -

But deeper was her joy to hear,

Even in his ripening youth,

And treasure up, from year to year,

His words of grace and truth. -

Oh, may we keep his words like her

In all their life and power,

And to the law of love refer

The acts of every hour. - -