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64

HYMN


BY THE SICK BED OF A MOTHER.




Father! that in the olive shade
    When the dark hour came on,
Didst, with a breath of heavenly aid,
Strengthen thy Son;

Oh! by the anguish of that night,
    Send us down blest relief;
Or to the chastened, let Thy might
Hallow this grief!