LEAN HARD | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 18, 1880

LEAN HARD.

CHILD of my love, lean hard; And let me feel the pressure of thy care. I know thy burden child; I shaped it, Poised it in my own hand.—made no proportion In its weight to thine unaided strength; For even as I laid it on, I said, I shall be near, and while he leans on me, The burden shall be mine, not his.

So shall I keep my child within the circling arms Of mine own love. Here lay it down, nor fear To impose it on a shoulder which upholds The government of worlds! Yet closer come; Thou art not near enough; I would embrace thy care, So I might feel my child reposing on my breast. Thou lovest me? I know it. Doubt not then, But loving me, lean hard!