Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892 · Boston, Houghton, Osgood and company · leaf 46
warden — He of the key and bar — 0 angel, sweet angel ! I pray you, Set the beautiful gates ajar, —Only a little, I pray you. Set the l>eautiful sates ajar ! I can hear my mother weeping ; She is lonely ; she cannot seeA glimmer of light in the darkness, Where the gates shut after me.Oh ! turn… … 30 CHILD LIFE. Then rose up Mary the Blessed, Sweet Mary, Mother of Christ :Her hand on the hand of the angel She laid, and her touch sufficed ;Turned was the key in the portal, Fell ringing the golden bar ;And lo ! in the little childs fingers Stood the beautiful gates ajar !lu the little…
Children's poetry
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