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THE RABBI'S JEWELS.
So might we two have said or sung
 But four short years ago,
That Sabbath evening that we bore
 Our darling through the snow.

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Another dedication-day
 Has come and gone since then,
And we have given our darling boy
 Up to the Lord again—

God grant with hearts as true, as when,
 That day of storm and snow,
We brought him first unto the Lord,
 Four happy years ago!

A stormy day to our poor hearts
 This baptism of fire—
Though nature wears her roses now,
 And earth her greenest 'tire!

Roughly the storm of sickness shook
 Our little tender flower;
But the Good Shepherd of the sheep
 Was with us in that hour,

And gave to our beloved sleep—
 Then bid us watch and see
The storm pass o'er him while he slept,
 From conscious suffering free.

Kinder than tenderest mother's arms
 Were round him as he slept,
And brighter visions than our home
 Were for his waking kept!

For the dear Saviour in His arms
 Has borne our lamb away,
To wake to more than mother's love—
 Earth's storms all past for aye!

The Rabbi's Jewels.
In schools of wisdom all the day was spent;
His steps at eve the Rabbi homeward bent,
With homeward thoughts which dwelt upon the wife
And two fair children who consoled his life.

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