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  • I ask Thee for a thankful love,
    Through constant watching wise,
    To meet the glad with joyful smiles,
    And to wipe the weeping eyes,
    And a heart at leisure from itself,
    To soothe and sympathize.

    "Father I know that all my Life, Hymns and Meditations" by Anna Laetitia Waring, (p. 2), 1850.