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 Hard may be the mountain-side, Soft the valley sod, Yet will fragrance sure abide With the Love-of-God.

Where the grace of Heaven leads, There it makes a home, Hills a hundred and the meads Will its pathway roam.

Carmel by the western sea Holds your blessed bower: Love-of-God eternally Keep your heart a-flower.

A PURPOSE OF AMENDMENT

He who mangold-patch doth hoe, Sweating beneath a sturdy sun, Clearing each weed-disguised row Till day-light and the task be done,

Standeth to view his labour's scene— Where now, within the hedge-row's girth, The little plants untrammeled green Stripes the brown fabric of the earth.

So when the absolution's said Behind the grille, and I may go, And all the flowers of sin are dead, And all the stems of sin laid low,