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Then they listened He is singing, '‘Jesus, favor of my soul!"
And the wirtds brought back the echo, " While the nearer n.vats.rs roll;”
Str ange, indeed, it was to hear him, Till the .term of life is past,”
Singing bravely from the waters, “ Oh, receive my son! at

He could have no other refuge! “ Hangs my helpless soul on thee,

Leave, ah, have me not!" The singer dropped at last into the sea,
And the watchers, looking homeward through their eyes with te;,v^
made dim,
Said, “ He passed to be with jesus in tlie singing of that hymn.”

M a r i a n n e P a r n i _\g h a m .

THE SOLDIER'S CRADLE™HYMN.

F R O M a field o f death anti carn ag e
T o th e hospital was borne,
One M ay morn a youthful soldier,

With a face all white and worn.

Day by day lie pined and wasted,
And :t\vas pitiful to hear
Tii rough the dreary long night-watches,
That sad call of “ Mother, dear.11

W eary sufferers, moaning, tossing,
Turned then sad eyes towards his cot j
But that cry- was still incessant,
The young soldier heeded not.

It was night; the lights burned dimly;
O'er the couch his mother bent
I-ovingly; with ^oft cart:sses
Through his hair her fingers \vtnf