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If fierce storms break, and the wild rain
     Comes pelting in,
Cover the shrinking nest, restrain
     The furious din.

At sultry noontide, when the air
     Trembles with heat,
Draw close the leafy covert where
     Cool shadows meet.

And when night falleth, dark and chill,
     Let one fair star,
Love's star all luminous and still,
     Shine from afar,

Thou who dost build the blind bird's nest
     Build Thou for me;
So 4hall my being find its rest
     Forevermore in Thee.