Evening Hymn.



God has kept me, dearest mother.
Kindly, safely, through the day:
Let me thank Him for His goodness,
Ere the twilight fades away.
  
For my home and friends I thank Him,
For my father, mother dear;
For the hills, the trees, the flowers,
And the sky so bright and clear.
  
If I have been kind and gentle,
If I've spoken what was true,
Or if I've been cross and selfish,
He has seen and known it, too.
  
Those I love He will watch over,
Though they may be far away,
For he loves good little children,
And will hear the words they say.
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Submitted on August 03, 2020

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Scheme ABXB XCXC XDXD ABXB
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 519
Words 106
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4

H P Nichols

H. P. Nichols was an American poet and author, active in the 1850s. more…

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