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 Behold! In all these ways we knew Thy way!

Our will inclined to Thine, Thou Shepherd dear;

From hill and valley following all day,

Behold us at Thy voice assembled here

Within the fold we knew, by waters still and clear.

Speak to our hearts to-day! With deep emotion

Our voices pleading join a greater cry;

With thousands more across the moving ocean

We praise Thy Heart, and all the reverent sky,

The angel-peopled space, hath heard us from on high.

We praise Thee, and we listen for Thy voice,

The same that spoke long since to her whose fame

Hath made the dying century rejoice;

Who at its young beginning, in Thy name

And for Thy love alone, asserted Thy Heart's claim.

She, holy with a holiness and grace

That bade her follow at Thy kindling glance,

She made her heart Thy dear Heart's dwelling place;

And led through all the lilied fields of France

Thy children to Thy love with love's most swift advance.

Now is Thy servant blessed; and now the south,

With the far north, the radiant east and west,

Give praises for the wisdom of her mouth;

Her deep desire, her soul's unwearied quest

Of hearts to love Thy Heart, wherein her own found rest.

To-day she stands before Thee in the shining

Of Thy high presence; and to-day she pleads,

With all a mother's tenderest divining

Of cares she knows, her children's utmost needs,

And love to them, like light, with consolation speeds.

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