I lend you for a time a child of mine," he said, for you to love while she lives and mourn when she is dead."it maybe six or seven years, or twenty two or three, but will you till i call her back, take care of her for me?
she'll bring her charms to gladden you and should her stay be brief, you'll have hey lively memories as solace for your grief
I can not promise she will stay , sicne all from earth return but there are lessons taught down there i want this child to learn
I looked this wide world over in my search for teachers true and from the things that crowd lifes lanes I have selected you
Now , will you give her all your love nor think the labor vain, nor hate me when i call to take her back again..
I fancie that I heard them say " dear loard, thy will be done. For all the joy they child shall bring the risk of grief will run
we'll shelter her with tendernedd, we'll love her while we may and for happiness we've known will ever grateful stay but shall the angles call for her much sooner then we planned we'll brave the utter grief
that come and try to understand
