1.
Disease and want had sadly chang’d
The mother once so fair,
Unconsciously she whisper’d food!
There’s food! O tell me where!
Her child bent o’er and caught her words; –
She turn’d away and said:
“O Nellie we will do without
And give poor ma the bread!”
Chorus
Have faith in Him who rules the wave
And bids the thunders roll:
For of its gloom He’ll rob the grave
And those who weep corsole.
2.
The moon has twice shone down upon
The meadow’s placid streams,
And twice has Georgia’s noon day sun
Shot forth its torrid beams,
Since Alice with averted face,
And heaving bosom said:
“Oh Nellie we will do without
And give poor ma the bread.”
Chorus, Have faith, etc.
3.
Beside their cherished parent’s couch
Now tenderly they knell:
And around her neck their little arms
Affectionately seal..
And tho’ her soul from earth has fled.
Those childish voices cry,
“Please ma look up once more and smile
And say you will not die!”
Chorus, Have faith, etc.
4. No kindred tie like final love
Ever made life pathway bright!
Tis as the beacon light that guides
The storm tossed ship at night.
Twas stronger than dreaded famine’s pain
With her who kindly said:
“Oh Nellie we will do without
In give poor ma the bread!”
Chorus have faith, etc.
(Joseph Warren Watson)
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