Songs by the Way, by George Washington Doane (1860)

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"Songs by the Way"
The Poetical Writings of the Right Rev. George Washington Doane, D.D., LL.D.

Arranged and Edited by His Son, William Croswell Doane

New York: D. Appleton, 1860.

THE EYES OF THE ANGELS.

A little child was disappointed, when her mother told her what the stars were.
She said, "I thought they were the eyes of angels."

"MOTHER, what are those little things,
     That twinkle from the skies?"
"The Stars, my child!" "I thought, Mother,
     They were the angels' eyes.

"They look down on me, so like yours,
     As beautiful, and mild;
When, by my crib, you used to sit,
     And watch your feverish child.

"And, always, when I shut my eyes,
     And said my little prayers,
I felt so safe: because I knew,
     That they had opened theirs."

RIVERSIDE, Monday BEFORE EASTER, 1855.

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