Part 2 — RECIPROCITY.
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Her mother, Elfie older grown, One evening, for adieu, Said, "You'll not mind being left alone, For God takes care of you!"
In child-way her heart's eye did see The correlation's node: "Yes," she said, "God takes care o' me, An' I take care o' God."
The child and woman were the same, She changed not, only grew; 'Twixt God and her no shadow came: The true is always true!
As daughter, sister, promised wife, Her heart with love did brim: Now, sure, it brims as full of life, Hid fourteen years in him!
1892.