In your beautiful book, dear Mary,
With pages so white and fair,
I pause ere I trace the first sentence,
And thoughtfully breathe a prayer:–
That in the dew of the morning,
Ere the shadows begin to fall,
You may turn with a child’s devotion
To the Book that is best of all:–
And learn with the gentle Mary,
At the Saviour’s feet to stay,
And to choose that better portion
Which shall never be taken away.
Ah! lovely and thrice beloved,
Sitting at Jesus’ feet,
In the shady walks of Bethany,
And the summer twilight sweet,–
With the thrilling palms and the olives,
Listening overhead,
To that wonderful voice whose music
Had power to waken the dead!
Even thus through life’s grave-shadowed valleys,
We may walk with that Heavenly Friend,
With a child’s loving faith in His promise
To be with us unto the end.
So I ask for my Mary, not grandeur,
Nor the wealth, nor the fame of the day,
But that which the world cannot give her,
The peace which it takes not away.
(Kate Seymour Maclean)
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