Look, five blue eggs are gleaming there!
Few visions have I seen more fair
Nor many prospects of delight
More pleasing than that simple sight!
I started, seeming to espy
The home and shelter'd bed,
The Sparrow's dwelling, which, hard by
My Father's House, in wet and dry
My Sister Emmeline and I
Together visited.
She look'd at it and seem'd to fear it;
Still wishing, dreading to be near it:
Such heart was in her, being then
A little Prattler among men.
The Blessing of my later years
Was with me when a Boy;
She gave me eyes, she gave me ears;
And humble cares, and delicate fears;
A heart, the fountain of sweet tears;
And love, and thought, and joy.
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