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First Line: Blessings, blessings on the beds
Last Line: "suffer them to come to me."
Subject(s): Children


BLESSINGS, blessings on the beds
Whose white pillows softly bear,
Rows of little shining heads
That have never known a care.

Pity for the heart that bleeds
In the homestead desolate
Where no little troubling needs
Make the weary working wait.

Safely, safely to the fold
Bring them wheresoe'er they be,
Thou, who saidst of them, of old,
"Suffer them to come to me."





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