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The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 1. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Narrative and legendary poems (search)
gives; He woundeth, but He healeth; in her child our daughter lives!” ‘Amen!’ the old man answered, as he brushed a tear away, And, kneeling by his hearthstone, said, with reverence, ‘Let us pray.’ All its Oriental symbols, and its Hebrew paraphrase, Warm with earnest life and feeling, rose his prayer of love and praise. But he started at beholding, as he rose from off his knee, The stranger cross his forehead with the sign of Papistrie. ‘What is this?’ cried Farmer Garvin. “Is an English Christian's home A chapel or a mass-house, that you make the sign of Rome?” Then the young girl knelt beside him, kissed his trembling hand, and cried: “Oh, forbear to chide my father; in that faith my mother died! On her wooden cross at Simcoe the dews and sunshine fall, As they fall on Spurwink's graveyard; and the dear God watches all! “ The old man stroked the fair head that rested on his knee; ‘Your words, dear child,’ he answered, “are God's rebuke to me. Creed