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<h2> The Hope of My Heart </h2>
<p>"Delicta juventutis et ignorantius ejus,<br/>
quoesumus ne memineris, Domine."<br/></p>
<p>I left, to earth, a little maiden fair,<br/>
With locks of gold, and eyes that shamed the light;<br/>
I prayed that God might have her in His care<br/>
And sight.<br/>
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Earth's love was false; her voice, a siren's song;<br/>
(Sweet mother-earth was but a lying name)<br/>
The path she showed was but the path of wrong<br/>
And shame.<br/>
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"Cast her not out!" I cry. God's kind words come —<br/>
"Her future is with Me, as was her past;<br/>
It shall be My good will to bring her home<br/>
At last."<br/></p>
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