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.

FROM "DANPY" TO HIS "BIRDIE."
WITH A WINTER BLOSSOM.*

MY "birdie" love, your little flowers
     Have touched your "Danpy's" heart;
And made the tears, like April drops,
     From its deep fountains, start.

He laid the fair and fragrant things,
     Between his Prayer Book leaves:
To look at in his loneliness;
     And cheer him, when he grieves.

So may his "birdie Lizzie" lie
     Safe, in the Church's arms;
Still guarded, by Her watchful love,
     And kept from sins and harms:

Till, at the gracious Saviour's call,
     She spreads her golden wings:
And, in the Paradise of God,
     Forever flies and sings

ASCENSION, 1856.

* A curl of his hair.

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