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A SONG FOR EVALEEN (Continued) Let it make for all who hear golden melody, So it raise some stricken heart where the tune may fall.

One to keep her baby eyes from despair and tears, Let them find the lovely things of thy wondrous ways; So they grow not dull with grief or too bright with fears— Let them see but splendid deeds meriting Thy praise.

One to guide her wilful feet lest they lose the way On their perilous woman's path, where such dangers be; Guide her little baby feet so they never stray Far from where Thou art a Child held on Mary's knee.

One to bless her every deed, every thought new-born, Bless her in the summer-time and in the winter's cold, Bless her in the dark of night and in the dawn of morn, This a song for Evaleen, only two years old. [90]