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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 23, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 37.

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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 mine own hand, made no proportion Of its weight to thine unaided strength. For even as I laid it on I said, “I shall be near, and, while she leans on me, This burden shall be mine, not hers; 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. —(London) Evangelist.